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SRIGOKUL MUDRANALAYA AYURVEDA SERIES
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OR
Ocean of Indian Gheraistry, Medicine & Alchemy
Voi. n
COMPILED IN SANSKRIT
By
BHUDEB MOOKERJEE, M. A. ( triple )
Sankhya-Vedantatirtha, Rasacharya
( Ayurvedic Physician )
{Formerly Lecturer, Post Graduate classes, Calcutta University
Principal, Bengal College of Ayurveda
With English Translation
by the Author
Introduction
Dr, SIDDHINANDAN MISHRA, Ph.D.
Head, Rasashastra Department
Govt, Ayurv^c College
S. S. University, VARANASI
SRIGOEHL MODR&NAL&Yi
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PREFACE
Little did I think at the time I set to myself the
gigantic task of compiling, in 10 volumes, a book
which has already been considered to be the most
systematic and comprehensive treatise on the almost
best, abstruse, and little known science of Hindu
chemistry, that it would be received by the educated
public with anything like enthusiasm. My diffidenrx:
on this ditection was due, no doubt, to a strange but
much evinced mentality, developed by a great majo-
rity of the present day Indians who are in the habit
condemning much of the social tod ctiltutal
achievements of their forefathers without even taking
the trouble of examining them critically, so much so
that everything which is unknown and un-intelligible
of these people is denounced as dogmatic, unscientific,
and superstitious. But fortunately for me, facts have
relied my expectation, at least partially. The en-
couragement which I have been receiving from the
really educated and patriotic section of the Indian
public, irrespective of caste, creed, or community, h^
elicited in me a faint ray of hope that time may ccrae
when my countrymen will turn their eyes inwards and
try to revive the ancient Indian culture, not tmly M
the departments of language, philosophy, religioii,
mathematics, and social, socio-religious, tod sodo^
political laws which have already received some
mention, but also in the departments of mateiial
Sciences including the science of medicine, whw^j
even in its degraded and much neglected condition,
human claim an incomparable superiority to all other
Systems of medicine known to the world. It is indeed
[ 2 ]
very gratifying to note that the first volume of
Rasa-jala-nidhi has met with much appreciation not
only in India, but also in foreign countries.
It is a pity that no Indian University has hither to
given any attention to the study of Indian Chemistry
and Indian medicine which are more important than
the other branches of Indian culture. It is very
difficult to foresee whether any of our Universities
will ever come to realize the importance of the
branches of ancient Indian culture, but, if men like
Sir Ghimanlal Setalvad, the present Vice-Chancellor
of the Bombay university, continue to be at the help
of University affairs in India, time may come when my
dream of the resurrection of the moribund India
sciences may be fulfilled.
Whatever that may be, the publication of any
work involves immense commercial possibilities. It
is a matter of common knowledge that a great many
of the allopathic drugs are prepared from Indian
herbs, the properties of which the allopaths came to
learn from the Indian books on herbal medicines but
tjnfortunately, the allopaths have not yet had the
opportunity of knowing that by far the greater portion
of the literature on Indian medicines is still a terra
incognita not only to them but to many of the practi-
tioners of Indian medicine themselves.
Of the innumerable metallic medicines prescribed
in books on Indian Chemistry, Rasa-sinduram or
ordinary sulphide of mercury- ( wrongly called “makara-
dhwaja” which is prepared out of sulphur and
mercury which has digested gold, i.e. swallowed
some gold without any increase in its original weight
80 much so that the gold, thus swallowed can by no
[ 3 ]
means be separated from the swallowing mercury.
Vide, pages 76 to 99, 105-116 and 134-135, vol. 1 ), is
the only one that has been brought to the knowledge
of the allopaths who have found it very efficacious as
a general tonic. This medicine is novy being prepared
by some foreign chemists and used extensively by the
Indian Allopaths. My publication will afford these
and other chemists an opportunity of preparing many
other metallic drugs, a lot of which are much more
efficacious than Rasa-sinduram which is only one of
the common-places of metallic preparations presOTbed
in books on Indian chemistry. This may open up a
new avenue of commercial intercourse between India
and the rest of the world leading to the revival of
Indian Chemistry in foreign countries at least, if not
in India itself Let truth triumph, no matter how,
when, and where.
Prof. Arthur Becket Lamb of the Harvard uni-
versity has kindly suggested to me the desiraMbtf
of pointing out the ancient sources of information
on which my compilation is based. This is a point to
which I had given a careful consideration at the tinae
I put the work in hand. The difficulty which stands
in the way of my accepting the suggestion is pecuJiair
to the manner in which Indian Chemistry has been
transmitted on the subject, hitherto discovered, claims
originality : the author of every one of these books,
says that he is only a compiler, and thctc is nothing
to disbelieve him, because all of these books have
much in common with one anotlrer. It is manifestly
evident that all of them drew on a common mass oi
materials transmitted by preceptors to disciples from
[ 4 ]
time out of memory. All that the ancient Hindus
really cared for was knowledge without a scrupulous
enquiry as to when and by whom a particular truth
was discovered. There is another reason why I
found the task of assigning sources of my information
almost impossible. The existing books are so much
wanting in method, so fragmentary, incomplete, and
so full of mistakes made by generations of scribes
that I had to correct the ancient tex(s to a great
extent and to supply the missing links from the
materials I collected from my preceptor who has got
his own manuscript notes on the whole science, so
much so that much of the language used in these
volumes is my own composition, althouih the
materials supplied are by no means of modern origin-^
they have been handed down to us by our remotest
fore-fathers through generations of chemists most of
whom have hitherto been ascetics retiring into the
forests. It will be evident to a careful student of
Hindu chemistry that the verses quoted in the texts
and those composed by myself have been so inter-
mingled with one another that it is practically im-
possible to give references to works laid under
contribution, in every case. Such being the case, all
that is possible for me is to furnish my readers with a
list of books and manuscripts consulted, and this I
pwopOse to do after I have completed the compilation
of all the volumes.
I consider it to be a pleasant duty to express my
heart-felt gratitude to Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose,
Sir Ghiman Lai Setalvad, Vice Chancellor, Bombay
University, Dr. Gerald Druce, author of “History
of science”, Dr. Nagaoka of the Institute of Physical
[ 5 ]
aod Chemical Research. Tokyo, Prof. H. K.
Sen of the Calcutta University, Mr. Arthur Edward
Wait, Prof. L. M. Dennis of the Cornell University,
Prof. A. B. Lamb of the Harvard University, and
many other well-known scholars, who have en-
couraged me by their sympathetic appreciation of
my ambitious work.
1 am also indebted to Pandit Nritya Copal Pancha-
tirtha, and to Professors Kshitish Ch. Ghatterjee
M. A. and Satkari Mookerji M. A. of the Deptt. of
Sanskrit, Calcutta University, not only for the help
they rendered to me in correcting the proof sheets
but also for several suggestions received from them.
The encouragement which 1 have received from
the following members of the Institute of Hindu
Chemistry also deserves mention : — Prof. Ramnarain
Kayasth M. Sc. B. Ag. of the Nagpur University,
Messrs. Girija Nath Mookerji B. Sc., Asstt. Analyst,
Calcutta Corporation, Anindra Nath Chatterji,
Sarojnath Bagchi, Ganapati Ghakravarty M. A. and
Upendra Nath Dutt ( who has taken the trouble
of compiling the Appendix to the present volume ).
4 1 -A Grey Street, Calcutta,
The 26th September 1927
BHUDEB M(X)KERJI
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGE.
Uparasas
3
Abhrak (Mica) ...
...
3
Different kinds of Mica
4
Mica should be deprived of its glaze
.*«
6
Purification of Mica
7
Dhan ya abhrak
...
■.*»
9
Incineration of mica '
* ««
10
Characteristic of killed mica ...
34
Nectarization of mica
» • .
...
35
Importance of putam in killing of mica
...
...
36
Rubbing not necessary in putams for 1000 limes
37
Killers of Mica
...
« .*
37
Use of incinerated mica
...
3d
Special accompaniments of mica
40
General directions for use of mica
...
42
Dietary in the use of Mica ...
41 •#
. ..
42
Evil effects of mica, not properly incinerated
...
43
Removal of mica, not properly incinerated
...
43
Extraction of essence of mica...
• « «
44
Purification of essence of mica
...
49
Incineration of essence of mica
.**
• • •
50
How incinerated essence of mica is to be used
54
Softeaing of essence of mica ...
* ♦ •
54
Liquefaction of mica
...
55
Amalgamation of more than one metal in a state of
cold liquid
...
59
Transformation of tin into silver by means of mica
...
60
Makshikam ( pyrites )
...
...
61
Detailed classification of pyrites
...
63
Merits o f makshika
65
Evil efifects of impure makshika
66
[ 2 ]
Purification of Makshika
Incineration of makshika
Extraction of essence of makshika
Use of essence of makshika ...
Liquefaction of essence of makshika
Accompaniments of makshika
Removal of evil effects caused by impure makshika
Bimala ( pyrites with red tints )
Purification of Bimala
Incineration of Bimala
Extraction of essence of Bimala
Use of the essence of Bimala ...
Shila-jalu ( Bitumen )
Special properties of different kinds of shilajatu
(а) Gold shila-jatu
(б) Silver shila-jatu
(c) Copper shilajatu (d) iron shilajatu (E) tin shilajatu
(/■) lead shilajatu ...
Test of genuine shila-jatu
Properties of shila-jatus in general
Purifiction of shila-jatu
Test of purified shila-jatu
Uses of purified shila-jatu
Incineration of shila-jatu ... ..;
Use of incinerated shila-jatu
Essence of shila-jatu
Camphor shila-jatu
Evil effects of taking impure shila-jatu ...
How to cure the diseases due to the use of impure shila
jatu
Sora ( saltpetre ), a kind of shila-jatu
Tuttham ( Sulphate of copper, manufactured )
Purification of tuttham
Extraction of essence from tuttham
Ditto without application of heat
How to extrat copper from feathers of peacock
The finger ring which cures colic and neutralises poison
PAGE.
66
71
73
76
76
77
77
77
78
80
81
83
84
87
87
87
88
89
89
90
99
103
101
102
102
103
103
103
104
105
105
107
108
108
109
[ 3 ]
Sasyakam or blue stone
PAGE.
HO
Qualities of sasyakam
• • • *
111
PurlGcation of sasyakam
••• »•*
111
Incineration of sasyakas
«•«
112
Extraction of essence from sasyaka
• * . ♦ .
115
Another kind of finger ring which cures colic and
removes poison
143
Incineration of the essence of tuttham or sasyakam
114
How to lemedy the evil effect of impure lutlhaka and
sasyaka
115
Chapala
114
Purification of Chapala • . .
... • # ♦
m
Extraction of essence from Cfiapala
117
Chapala produced from lead and tin
• 1.1 •*:
ua
Rasaka or kharpara ( calamine )
... « .
119
Inability of Rasaka to stand fiire
... . • «
120
How Rasaka may be made to
stand fire
• • ♦ ...
120
Purification of Rasaka
••• r««
122
Incineration of Rasaka
»«« » • •
124
Extraction of essence from Rasaka
... *.%
125
Incineration of the essence of Rasaka
...
12»
Dyeing of mercury, etc. by ra&aka
...
129
CHAPTER II
Gandhaka { sulphur )
• • # # • •
130
Variety of sulphur
... • * *
130
Properties of Sulphur
... • • ♦
131
Sulphur is to be purified
132
Purification of Gandhaka
...
132
How to take gandhaka
... •**
135
TheRasayana gandhaka
139
Sulphur oil
141
Dietary when taking sulphur ...
... . . *
143
Removal of odour from sulphur
• t. •
143
Transformation of base metals by Gandhaka ...
145
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PAGE,
Eetnaval of the evil consequences of taking
impure sulphur ...
• * • • « •
' 146
Gairikara ( red ochre ) ...
146
Purification of gairikam
147
Extraction of essence from gainkam
* • • ...
147
Uses of gairikam ...
148
Kasisam ( sulphate of iron ). ...
• » • . « •
150
Purification of kasisam
151
How to take kasisam
152
Kankshi ( alum clay)
» • * , , ,
153
Properties of kankshi
... ...
153
Purification of extraction of essence from tubari
154
Haritalam ( Orpiment )
...
155
(a) Patra haritalam
•*.
155
•( 2 ) Pinda haritalam
* • . ...
156
( 3 ) Godanta haritalam ...
• • • , , ,
156
( 4 ) Vakadala haritalam
156
Properties of purified haritalam
...
157
Haritalam fit for incineration ...
157
Evils of using impure haritalam
... * ■ •
157
Purification of haritalam
158
Incineration of haritalam
163
Liquefaction of haritalam
... • • «
.179
Test of incinerated haritalam ...
•»* ...
180
Merits of incinerated haritalam
181
Accompaniments of haritalam ...
... , , ,
182
Extraction of essence from haritalam
... « • »
183
Use of essence of haritalam
Antedotes to the bad effects of taking
impur
192
haritalam ... ...
193
Dietary
194
Transformation of base metals into gold by haritalam ...
194
Manas'sbila ( realgar )
... « • ,
196
Different kinds of manas-shila ...
... « « «
196
Properties of manas-shila ..; ... ...
■fivil effects of taking mans*sbila, not properly
197
purified - .i.
198
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Purification of manas-shila
Extraction of essence of aiauas-shila ...
Antedotes to the bad effects of taking impure
manas'Shila ...
Anjanam
< 1 ) Sduviranjanam ...
f 2 ) Nilanjanam ... , ...
< 3 ) BUsanjanam
( 4 ) Srotonjanam
< 5 ) Kulattahanjanam
< 6 ) Pushpanjanam ...
Purification of anjanams
Extraction of essence from anjanams
Solidification of mercury by means of Srotonjana
Kunkustham ( an ore containing tin )
Purification of kunkustham
■How to take kunkstham
PAGE.
.. 198
200
.. 201
202
.. 202
.. 202
.. 203
204
205
205
205
207
207
208
208
210
CHAPTER III
Kampilla
Purification of sadbarana ?3parasas ( viz. from kampilla
211
to bhiinaga )
• « *
212
Use of Kampilla
« f •
212
Gauripashana ( Arsenic Slone )., .
213
Purification of arsenic stone
213
Extraction of essence from gauripasbana ...
214
Navasara ( Ammonium-chloride )
214
Properties of Navasara
215
Kapardaka ( cowri or marine shells ) ...
* li «
216
Properties of cowry or marine shells
#> « •«
217
Purification of kapardi ( cowri )
* « #
218
Incineration of kapardika or cowri
218
Shankba ( conch shell )
220
Purifieation of Shankha
* • *
220
''Incineration of Shankha
220
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Properties of Shankha
# a »
• « «
PAGE.
221
Bahni jara or agnijara
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« a a
*• .
221
Qirisinduram ( mineral red vermilion )
...
* • .
222
Properties of girisinduram
• • *
...
223
Red vermilion fit for use
♦ • «
...
...
223
Purification of red vermilion
a a a
224
Hingula ( Cinnabar )
a • a
a.a
224
Varities of Hingula
a a «
• a.
225
Properties of Hingula
a « «
...
225
Purification of Hingula
...
a « •
...
226
Preparations of Hingula
a a a
• « «
228
Preparation of cinnabar at laboratory
a a a
231
Evil effects of impure Hingula
...
a * •
232
Tlieir remedies
• • *
a a a
233
Essence of Hingula ...
a • a
a a a
233
Mriddara shringaka
a. a
...
233
Purification of Ditto
• * *
...
234
Bhunaga ( earthworm )
a t a
...
234 .
Purification of Ditto
. • »
235
Essence of Ditto
• • •
a a a
...
235
Properties of essence of earthworms
...
236
CHAPTER IV
Gold ...
Varieties of gold
Properties of gold ...
Evil effects of taking gold not duly incinerated and
parified
Purification of gold ...
Incineration of gold
Importance of mercury in tl« inpiperatiop of gold
Accompaniments of gold
Liquefaction of gold
ilver ...
237
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238
239
241
242
245
245
258
250
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Varieties of silver ...
...
... 260
Qualities of silver ...
» « #
••• 262
Silver is to be purified and incinerated
• • «
... 263
Purification of silver
• ••
... 263
Incineration of silver
*•«
... 265
Uses of incinerated silver
... 271
Liquefaction of silver
• • •
... 273
Tamram (Copper) ...
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... ^
Characteristics of bad coppper
• « ft
... 274
„ „ good copper—
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Properties of copper
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... 275
Evil properties of copper not duly purified and
incinerated
•••
... 276
Purification of copper
...
... 273
Incineration of copper
...
... 279
Somanatha T amram
...
... 280
Arka-talam
...
... 282
Nectarisation of incinerated copper
...
... 287
Use of incinerated copper
• • »
... 288
Glossary
• » •
... 289
Appendix
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ERRATA.
Page a 1 5, line lo. Insert “reduced to ashes" after "hog, etc.”
Page 326, line it. Insert ‘Turification of Hingula (Cinnabar),
Page 237. For “Chapter Vi.” read “Chapter It.*’
Page 351. Last but one line. For “copper” read “mak^ikam
(pyrits).’
Page 7S, line 24. Insert '‘purification of Btmalae”
Page 208, line afi. Insert “purification of kankustham.’’
Page 259 line 7. Insert “Liquefaction of gold.
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CHAPTER I.
The following are ike uparasas ; —
Group I — bajra abhra, two kinds of maksbikaiOi
biinala, shilajatu, tutthaka, sasyaka, chapala, and
fasaka. These are to be collected for purification and
incineration.
Group II — gandhaka, gairika, kasisa, kankshi,
haritala, manas-shila, anjana, and kankustha. These
are used in mercurial operations.
Group III — kampilla, gouripashana, navasara, ko'
pardaka, agnijara, girisindura, htngula, and ntriddara*
shringaka, and bbunaga.
They are called uparasas, simply because they
possess some of the qualities of Rasa or mercury.
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Abhram (Mica),
Mica is a great increaser of vitality. It removes
from the system an abnormal excess of va)ru ( air )
and pitta ( animal heat ), and does away with waste.
It increases retentive faculties, cures diseases, and
increases longevity, energy and strength. It soqitbes
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the system, increases appetite, removes phlegm,
increases the power of digestion of food, and produces
a cooling effect. It cures all sorts of diseases, if
administered with suitable anupanam (accompaniment).
It helps the solidification of mercury.
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Different kinds of Mica,
The attributes mentioned above are possessed by
that mica only which is procured from a mine, having
a depth of twelve feet, at least. Mica, procured
otherwise, has got no substance, and is therefore
useless. There are four kinds of mica, viz. ( i )
Pinakam,‘(2) Nagam, (3) Mandukara and (4)
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Bajram. Each of these is again subdivided into four
different classes, according to their colour ( viz. white,
red, yellow, and black ). If subjected to heat,
Pinakam splits itself into pieces, so that its layers
are separated from one another. If taken inter*
nally, it causes death by an incurable constipation.
If subjected to heat, Nagam emits a hissing sound
like that of a snake. Taken internally, it gives rise
to a kind of leprosy, called tnandalam. If subjected
to heat, Mandukam leaps up like a frog. Taken
internally, it gives rise to stone disease, incurable,
except by surgical operations. If subjected to heat,
Bajram is freed from all sorts of impurities, and cures
all sorts of diseases and strengthens the body, if
taken internally, in the prescribed manner.
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Mica, again, is of four different kinds, viz, white,
red, yellow, and black. White mica is used in
processes imparting a white colour to a substance
\e. g. in transformation of lead into silver). Red mica
is used in imparting a red colour to a metal, Yellow
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mica is used in processes imparting a‘ yellow colour
to A substance, as for example, in the transformation
of base metals into gold.
Although these four different kinds of bajra-mica
have been recommended for use in medicines, the
black bajra mica is infinitely superior to the other three
kinds in efficacy. Only that kind of mica is to be
made use of in medicines which is soft, full of layers,
et^oured, heavy, and is easily capable of being split
up into its constituent layers.
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Mkask>uldbe deprived of its glaze.
Mica should be deprived of its glaze. Mercury
does not swallow the mica which has not been
deprived of its natural glaze, and which appears to be
dirty. Even if such a mica is swallowed by mercury,
it should not be used in medicines, as well as in
•nsjet^hirgical operations. The mica whiph has been
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deprived of its natural glaze ( by being incinerated
in the manner described below ), should be used in all
sorts of diseases. Mica, with a glazed surface, if taken
internally, gives rise to spermatorrhoea and loss of
appetite. Those who recommend the use in medicines,
of mica, as it is found in nature, do no better *than
prescribe the use of kalakuta poison, for the purpose
of saving human life. Only that mica, which has been
duly purified, should be used for the purpose of extrac-
tion of essence as well as for incineration ; otherwise,
if taken internally, it will give rise to various kinds of
disturbances in the system.
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Purification, of Mica.
First Process.
Mica is purified, if it is heated strongly, ( prefer-
ably by means of a bellows ) for seven times and im-
mersed each time, either in (i) kanji, or {fi) cow’s
urine ; then heated for seven times and immersed
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each time in the decoction of triphala ; and then
again, heated for seven times, and immersed in
milk with especial care. It is then to be reduced to
what is called, ‘‘Dhanya-abhram”, and incinerated in
the prescribed manner.
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Second process.
Mica may also be purified, if it is heated and then
immersed, while still hot, into a decoction of hog
plums. It is next to be rubbed "^ith two hands and
dried. Thus reduced to powder, it becomes finer and
better than Dhanya-abhram. (It is next to be in-
cinerated exactly in the same way as Dhaitya-
abhram).
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Third process.
Mica is purified, if it is heated strongly lor seven
times, and immersed each time in the juice of nir-
gundi leaves. Mica, thus purified, is to be reduced to
Dhanya-abhram, and incinerated.
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Fourth process.
Black mica is to be heated and immersed in milk.
Its layers are then to be separated from one another
and subjected to bhavana with the juice of tanduliyaka
and a sonr non-metallic liquid. Mica is thus
purified.
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Dhanya^abhram.
Povjfdered mica, mixed with shali paddy, is to be
contained in a piece of cloth, and formed into a
bundle, which is to be kept immersed in kanji for
some time. This is then to be rubbed with two hands,
and pressed in the midst of kanji, with the result
that very minute particles of mica will come out erf
the bundle, and deposit themselves at the bottom of
the pot containing the kanji. These minute particles
of mica are called, “Dhanya-abhram'* or *'paddy
mica.’
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First process,
Dhanya*abhram is to be rubbed carefully with the
juice of matsyakshi, made into a cake, dried and sub-
jected to heat by means of a half Gajaputam. This
process is to be performed for six times. The mica
is next to be rubbed with one-fourth its weight of
tankanam and a sufficient quantity of the juice of
punarnava, and then made into a cake which is to be
subjected to heat by means of a half Gaja-putam.
The process is to be performed for seven times. It
is similarly to be subjected to putam for seven tinjes
each, after having been previously rubbed with the
juices of basaka and tanduliyaka. Mica, thus in-
cinerated, may be used in medicines as well as in
metallurgical operations.
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Second process,
Dhanya-abhratn is incinerated, if it is subjected to
putam for ten times, after having been rubbed each
time with the juice of kasamarda. The same purpose
is served, if the juice of musta or of tanduliya is
used instead of kasamarda.
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Third process.
Mica is incinerated and assumes the colour of red
vermilion, if it is subjected to putam for six times,
after having been rubbed each time, with haritalam,
the juice of amalaki, and tankanam. This mica cures
pthisis and all other diseases, if used with suitable
anupanam or accompaniment.
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Fotirth process.
Mica is incinerated and assumes the colour of red
vermilion, if subjected to putam for 20 times, after
having been rubbed each time with the juice of any
one of the following bark of the root of a
banyan tree, (2) leaves of tambuli (betel) plant, (3)
basa and matsyakshi, (4) matsyakshi and karaballi, or
(5) milk of banyan tree.
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Fifth process.
Mica is incinerated by being subjected to putam
for three times, after having been subjected to
bhavana, each time, with the juice of eranda leaves,
mixed with molasses. Mica, thus incinerated, increases
appetite to a great extent, and cures all sorts of
diseases, if taken in doses of half a gunja a day, com-
bined with suitable anupanam.
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Sixth process.
Dhanya-abhrakam is to be subjected to Gaja-
putam, after having been rubbed for one day with the
juice of punarnava. It is next to be subjected to
Gaja-putam, after having been rubbed for one day
with the juice of meghanada. It is then to be sub-
jected to putam for three times, after having been
rubbed with the juices of tamarind, raustaka, and
shurana, respectively. It is next to be covered with
the leaves of arka or with the petals of banana flower,
and subjected to putam. Thus treated, mica becomes
deprived of its glaze, and may be used in medicines
and metallurgv.
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Seventh process.
Dhanya-ahhram is to be roasted with cow’s ghee
and decoction of triphals, and subjected to putam for
twenty five times. It is next to be roasted with the
juice of kasamarda. It is thetl to be subjected to
putam for three times, having previously been rubbed
with milk, every time. The mica, thus deprived of
its glaze, may be used in medicines for the removal of
diseases, .senility, and premature death.
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Eighth process.
One part of Dhanya-abhram and two parts of
tankanara are to be rubbed together and subjected to
heat in a blind crucible by means of a strong fire.
When cooled of itself, after the extinction of fire, the
mica finely powdered, can be used in all sorts of
diseases.
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Ninth process,
Dhanya-abhram is, first of all, to be rubbed with a
sour vegetable juice and subjected to putam. While
still hot, it is to be saturated with a sour vegeta-
ble juice, rubbed well, and subjected to bhavana with
sour aranala. It is next to be boiled with aranala which
is to be dried by the application of heat This process
is to be performed for 20 times, either by heating
in the ordinary way or by putam. Care should be
taken that heating is commenced in a succeding stage,
while the mica is still hot by the preceding heating.
' Next, the mica is to be immersed, while still hot,
in milk, rubbed with it, and dried up by application
of heat Then, while still hot, it is to be subjected
to putam, and then while still hot, is to be soaked with
fresh milk, which is to be dried up by heat. This
process of soaking and rubbing the mica with milk,
and then drying it lip by application of heat, and then
subjecting it to putam is to' be performed 21 times.
It is to be turned frequently in a cauldron or in an
earthen pot, at the time it is roasted, after it has been
soaked and rubbed with milk.
It is next to be roasted for seven days, during day
time, and subjected to putam at night.
The mica is then to be rubbed for three days each
with the juices of tanduliaka, asthisanhara, talamuli,
punarnava, changeri, maricha, and bala. and subjected
to putam after every act of rubbing. The prescribed
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juice, in this case, is to be rubbed with, the mica,
while it is still hot by the previous putam, and the
rubbing is to take place in the hot samputam itself.
Mica, thus incinerated, turns black.
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Tenth process.
Purified Dhanya abhram with one tenth its weight
of maricha is to be rubbed with the arala-varga,
and then subjected to bhavana with a sour vegetable
liquid for three days. When dried, it is to be subjected
to ptitatn by a strong fire made of khadira wood.
After removal of the upper basin, the .mica is to be
saturated with a sour vegetable liquid. It is then to
be rubbed with the juices of the root, bark, and
leaves, respectively, of basaka, shigru, and punarnava,
and then saturated for six times with six differ*
ent kinds of sour vegetable juices. The mica is
then to be rubbed, with sugar, honey, clarified
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butter, cow’s milk, curd, amlas, juices of matsyakhshi,
and karabira, for three times, and subjected to putam
each time with the result that it is- incinerated and
deprived of its glaze.
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Eleventh process.
Dhanyabhrakam is to be rubbed for one day with
the juice of each of the following : — matsyakhshi,
tulasij root of kokilaksha, root of kanya, root of white
durva, byaghri kanda, and punarnava, and subjected
to heat in a Gaja putam after each day’s rubbing.
Every act of rubbing in this case is to be effected
while the mica is still hot by a pevious heating. The
mica is similarly to be rubbed with the panchamitram
and then heated by means of a Gajaputam for seven
times. The mica, thus deprived of its glaze, may be
used in all sorts of diseases.
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Twelfth process.
Bhanya abhram and an equal quantity of tankanam
are to be rubbed tegether with each of the following,
and subjected to putam after every act of rubbing is
performed : — Cow's urine, juice of tulasi, juice of
bakuchi, and juice of shurana. It is next to be rubbed
with the juice of jayanti, and subjected to putam for
three times. All this process, performed for four
times, deprives the mica of its glaze, and makes it fit
for use in all sorts of diseases.
Thirteenth process.
Dhanya abhram is to he rubbed with the milk of
arka or with the juice of the root of arka, and then
subjected to putam. Performance of this process for
seven times causes the incineration of mica.
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Fourteenth process,
Dhanya abhram is to be immersed in kanji and
kept exposed to the sun for one day. It is then to be
rubbed for twelve hours, made into a lump, and heat-
ed by Gajaputara. It is next to be immersed in
cow’s milk in the same way and similarly rubbed and
heated. It is then to be immersed in the pice of
cotton leaves, exposed to the sun for one day, and
then rubbed and heated, as before. The mica is then
to be dried in the sun, and heated by putam over and
over again, after having been rubbed each time with
one of the following in order of their occurrence : —
sour vegetable juices, juice of cotton .leaves, and cow’s
milk. Twenty-one such putams will cause the incine-
ration of the mica.
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Fifteenth process.
Dhanya abhratn is to be duly dried up, and rubb-
ed for one day with the milk of arka or tbe juice of
arka roots. It is then to be wrapped up with arka
leaves and heated by Gajaputam. This process is to
be performed carefully for seven times. The mica is
then to be rubbed with a decoction of the aerial roots
of a banyan tree, and then heated by putam. The
last mentioned process is to be performed for three
times, leading to the incineration of mica, which may
now be used in all sorts of diseases.
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Sixteenth process,
Dhanya abhram is to be rubbed for three times,
with decoction of musta, and heated every time by a
putam. It is then to be rubbed for three times, with
each of the following, and subjected to putam after
each act of rubbing :~ju{ce of punarnava, juice of
kasamarda, juice of tambulam, milk of arka, decoction
of aerial roots of banyan, juice of mushali, decoction of
gokshura, juice of banari, juke of the tuber of
banana, juice of kokilaksha, and juice of lodhra. The
mica is then to be rubbed for one time with ^ch of
the following and heated by putam, after every act of
rubbing — juice of lodhra, milk, curd, clarified butter,
honey, and white sugar. Mica, thus indnarated,
cures all sorts of disease, if applied witii suitable
anupanam. It increases masculine strength, power of
retention of semen, nutrition, longevity, growth of
semen, retentive faculties, and the power of begetting
children.
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Seveniemih process.
Mica is to be rubbed with the juice of a banana
plant and salt, and made into a ball, which is to , be
kept inside tankanam. This is then to be put inside
a hole made into the root of snuhi or arka,
the hole being closed tightly with a portion of
the same root. The whole thing is nrw to be
subjected to heat by a fii;^ made of charcoal, and
kept kindled by a fan.
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E^hteentk process.
Mica is incinerated and assumes the colour of a
lotus flower, if subjected to putam for a hundred times,
after having been rubbed well with each of the
following : — ^milk of banyan, milk of arka, milk of
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snuhi, juice of kanya, juice of musta, man’s urtnej
juice of the aerial roots of banyan tree, and goat’s
blood.
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Nineteenth process,
Dhanya abhram is incinerated, if subjected to
putam for one thousand times, after having been
rubbed each time with cow’s urine.
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Twentieth process,
Dhanya abhram, properly dried, an equal quantity
of musta, and six times its weight of shunthi, are
to be rubbed for one day each with kanji and the
juice of chitraka, and then subjected to Gajaputam.
It is then to be rubbed with the decoction of triphaki,
and subjected to putam in the same manner fmr
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three times. It is next to be rubbed with each of
the following, and heated by putam, for three times,
after each act of rubbing ; — juice or decoction of
bala, cow’s urine, juice of mushali, juice of tulasi, and,
juice of shuranam.
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Twenty-first process,
Dhanya abhram is to be rubbed, first of all, with
the juice of changer!, and then with the juice of
tanduliyaka. It is then to be heated, by means of
khadira wood, and, when red hot, to^be thrown into
milk, The process is to be repeated until the mica
is deprived of its glaze.
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Twenty second process,
Dhanya abhrara with an equal quantity of molasses
is to be rubbed with excellent milk, made into a
cake, dried, and then heated by Gajaputam. It is
next to be rubbed separately with the juice of
each of the following, and subjected to heat by
Gajaputam, everytime it is so rubbed : — dhattura,
gaja pippali, kanya, and utpalam. Mica, thus treated,
becomes incinerated,
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Twenty third process.
Dhanya abhram is to be rubbed with the juice of
any grass and subjected to putam. Performance of
this process for ten times will lead to the incineration
of the mica, which will also be deprived of its glaze,
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Twenty -fottrih process.
Two parts of Dhanya abhram and one {Kirt of
purified sulphur are to be rubbed together with the
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milk of banyan, and subjected to Gajaputam for once
only. This will result in the incineration of mica.
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Twenty-fifth pnmss.
Dhanya abhram is incinerated and cures all sorts
of diseases, if rubbed with each of the following for
seven times, and subjected to putara after every act
of rubbing punarnava, kumari, shunthi, banari,
mushali, ikshu, amalaki, milk of arka, and milk of
shehundui
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wfftq gig^pra srejgi^^siRFi q^g, i
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Twenty sixth pi'ocess,
Dhanya abraham, duly purified, especizdly with
gwn i
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decoction of triphala, is to be kept immersed, for forty
days, in four times its quantity of shuktam.# Then,
two tolas of purified mercury, four tolas of fresh
babbula flower, and four tolas of fresh gum of babbula,
are to be rubbed together, made into a ball which
is to be thrown into the shuktam. The whole thing
is next to be turned by means of a rod every day,
for three days only, (and by no means for a longer
period) and after the expiry of these days, to be
rubbed together in a mortar and made into a cake,
when sufficiently condensed. This cake is to be
dried in the sun and heated in a Gajaputam. It is
next to be rubbed with a fresh quantity of shuktam
for one day only, and then subjected to putam by a
fire made of cowdung cakes, found dried in the
pasturage. These last two processes, viz. rubbing
with a fresh quantity of shuktam, and heating by
cowdung cakes, if performed for three times, result
in the incineration of the mica. If taken in doses of
one gunja a day, it even enables a blind man to
recover his eye sight. It also cures all sorts of
diseases, and especially, indigestion, impurities of
blood, gonorrhoea, carbuncles, abnormal thirst,
leprosy, enlargement of spleen, diseases pertaining to
» Shuktam is prepared as. follows : —
One prastha of boiled rice made into a paste ( by being over-
boiled, robbed, and sifted throngh a piece of fine cloth ), 20 prastbas
of kanli, 30 tolas of cord, one prastha of molasses, 32 tolas of the
residues of kanji, 64 tolas of shunthi, and eight tolas of pippali,
jira, samdbava, baridra, and marioha, combined — all these things
are to be kept for eight days, in an earthem vessel, previously soaked
with datified butter. It is then to be filtered and mixed with three
tolas each of guda twaka, ela, naga keshara, and patri.
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the belly and the stomach, scrofula, worms, and con-
sumption. It is moreover very nutritive.
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Tweni^ seventh process,
Dhanyabhrara is to be rubbed for seven days with
each of the following during day time, and heated by
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Gaja putam ever/ corresponding night : — milk of
arka, cow’s milk ; juices of — brahmi, rudanti, bala,
basa, chitraka, shalmali, vilba, haritaki, kushmanda,
dadima, jati, gokshura, shankha puspi, meda, ananta
mula, barbari, draksha, mula, rakshasi ( muramansi ),
tulcisij mundi, indrabaruni, mada ( dhataki flower ),
gojihva, vidari creeper, shringi ( karkata shringi ),
bacha, jatamansi, shata puspa, and arka. The mica
is next to be subjected to bhavana for twenty times-
with each of the two juices,, viz, the juice of the aerial
roots of banyan, and the juice of kesharaja, and
heated by putam after every such act of bhavana.
It is next to be rubbed separately .with the juices of
kapittha and seeds of cbinchini ( tamarind ), and
heated by putam after each act of rubbing. It is
next to be subjected to putam for fifteen times, after
having been rubbed each time with the following,
mixed together lemon juice, cow’s milk, solution
of molasses, curd, khanda guda, clarified butter, and
pure honey. Thus treated, the mica will be deprived
of its glaze and assume a red appearance. This will
then be fit for use by kings.
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Tweuiy eighth process.
Mica is to be rubbed with each of the follow-
ing : — nagabala, bhadramusta, milk of banyan, juice of
the aerial roots of banyan, juice of haridra, and sub-
jected to putara after its being rubbed with each of
them. Mica thus incinerated, assumes a red appearance.
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Twenty-ninth process.
Dhany abhram is to be rubbed with the juice of
matsyakshi, made into a cake, dried, and then heated
in a Gaja putam. It is thus to be rubbed with the
juice of punarnava and heated by Gaja putam for six
times. It is next to be rubbed with one sixteenth
its weight of tankanam, made into a cake, and heated
by fire being applied on the upperside of the sam-
putam ( containing the cake ) which is to be in a pit
made in the earth. This, process of rubbing with
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tankanam and heating is to be performed for seven
times. It is next to be rubbed with each of the
following for seven times each, and heated in the
aforesaid way after its being rubbed each time*. —
juice of basa, and juice of tanduliyaka. Mica, thus
incinerated, may be used in all sorts of diseases.
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ftsf wsr idcpft
5I«ITff I
»h4i5ryi5fi^fiiwit»»fldi<!f)<H4i««ai<!mal i
l^^Jta?rgfer3r)c»flr5Rf mt ^?Rra-
Wli: II
srai^^ii
Thirtieth process.
Vajra abhra is to be rubbed in a mortar with hot
milk of cow, and heated by a mild fire in an iron
cauldron, mixed with a little of clarified butter.
This mica, with s'ali paddy, contained in a piece of
cloth, made into a bundle, is to be rubbed in kanji
with the result that minute particles of mica will
come out through the cloth. These particles are
called “DbSnya abhram”, and they are pure. This
mica is incinerated, if rubbed with each of the
following drugs (not exceeding one in a day) during
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day time, then dried in the sun, and heated by putam
by means of cowdung cakes, at night. ^
The names of the drugs and their sequence are
as follows : — «
milks of arka, banyan, bajri, and kanya ; juices of
eranda roots, jaba-ticta, musta, guduchi, bhanga,
gokshura, bartakini ( kantakari ), shalaparni, prisni-
parni, sweta sarshapa, apamarga, aerial roots of a
banyan tree, vilba, agnimantha, chitraka, tinduka,
haritaki, patali, amalaki, bibhitaki, kumbhi growing in
water, talish patram, talamuli, basaka, aswagandha,
kesharaja, kadali ( plantain ), saptaparni, dhattura,
lodhra, devadaru, tulsi, durba, white durba, kasamarda,
maricha, dadima, kakamachi, shankhapuspi, nata,
tambula, punarnava, brahmi, indra baruni, bhargi ,
devadali, kapittha, shivalingi, katu rohini, kinshuka,
kosbataki, indura parni, meenakshi, karavi, dlaparni,
kumbhi, ardraka, shatabari, goat's blood, and cow’s
uiine. ®
^ ^ iiRsjrsRafiwa. i
^ gaftrfinitgjireB* ii
Ckaracteristici of killed {incinerated) mica.
Mica is said to be killed or incinerated, if it is
deprived of its glaze, and becomes as fine as collyrium ;
otherwise, it is to be considered un-killed.
larei?! ii
This includes the process of preparing dbanya abhram.
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«nip«Tg5ft^ feras, II
Impartation of the qualities of nectar upon
killed mica.
Sixteen palams ( 64 tolas) of decoction of triphala,
eight palams of cow’s ghee, and ten palams of killed
mica are to be mixed together, and heated in an iron
cauldron by a mild fire, until the whole thing gets
dried. This mica gains in efiBcacy and is to be used
in all sorts of diseases, The same process is to be
followed in the nectarisation of other metals also.
gw iff
w:af‘ g
Another process of nectarisadton of mka.
Incinerated mica, with an equal quantity of clari-
fied butter, are to be heated in an iron cauldron, until
the ghee is dried up. Efficacy of mica is enhaami
by this process.
WWW
N. B. These processes hold good in the cases of
dead mica, not red in colour. The qualities of dead
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mica, red in colour, do not improve by the process of
nectarisation. On the other hand, red mica undergoes
deterioration in efficacy by this process.
aisjimof gjsrei 5l3iiw« i
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npiHTt sst|^ ii
Iinportanc& of putam in killing of mica.
Mica, incinerated by putams numbering lo to loo,
is to be used only for the purpose of curing of disease.
Mica, incinerated by putams numbering iqo to ickxd,
may be used for the purposes of curing and prevent-
ing physical decay and senility.
JWTiJWH I
s?si’ag!?S!33jf 51?^ 3 I
rs ^ ^
4W 3f!«IPwigSi>« ^ #3f ®
Another view.
Mica, incinerated by putam for i8 times becomes
pacifier of bayu. It becomes a pacifier of pittam, if
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incinerated by putam for 36 times. It pacifies phlegm,
if incinerated by putam for 54 times. Mica, subjected
to putam for more than one hundred times, is entitled
to the name of beejam ( seed ). Such a mica increases
semen, vitality, complexion, and strength of body. #
1 ^ - t
*1^ g atfic fimi *ra»r^ii
Rubbing not necessary in putams for 1000 times.
If it is intended to subject mica to putam for a
thousand times, it need not be rubbed with any of
the prescribed juices. The mere act of subjecting
the mica to bhavana with the prescribed juices will
suffice in such a case.
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Killers of mica.
Mica Is also incinerated by being subjected to
putam, after having been rubbed with the following : —
tanduliyaka, brihati, nagaballi, tagarpadika, punamava,
• Purified gold, and silver, as well as mica of the above des-
creption, are called *‘beejam" (seed), simply bemiuse they are fit for
being swallowed by mercury.
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hilamochika, mandukaparni, tictaka (kirata ticta),
akhuparni, madana, ardraka, palasha, mercury, and
amalaki.
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Use^ of incinerated mica.
Mica of an excellent quality cures pthisis, jaundice,
chronic diarrhoea, colic, dysentry, leprosy, fever,
asthma, gonorrhoea, aversion to food, loss of appetite,
cough, and pain in the abdomen, if taken in doses
of one balla at a time, with bidanga, trikatu,
and ghee. It also cures all other diseases, if taken
with the suitable anupanam (as detailed below).
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W'RrWgSIT I
si^irajf iiRj^sira 5^: u
<rpi n
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sw«tswrm; i
§re5ft'S5nf«' fapn i
n^fit ^fei srra: ii
^ ^ rs
^»n‘5^»i3ratRrants!R ii
lira: ipss^fiRRjw I
sra^lics^lH 11
n ^law qi 3«‘ iran i
s^fte aijirai^ fis(i!i,R«n, ii
•<HKMlHWPrf<|J|ii Ulfn Hf II
3i^<K^35i ijii^^fltbviRlamirail i
•^ i si^ra' irai :iirei‘ Pra< lq fa ii :<i!H. ti
ci 5#T^7EN|IJ,l
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Special accompaniments of incinerated mica.
Mica, even if it is used without any accompaniment,
can prevent senal decay, arrival of premature death,
and diseases in general, but for the purpose of curing
diseases, it may be used with suitable accompani-
ments.
It is to be used with haridra, pippali, and honey
in twenty different kinds of prameha ; with incinerated
gold in pthisis and for increase of the dhatus ; with
incinerated gold and silver for increase of the dhatuc ;
with haritaki, molasses, ela, and sharkara (sugar) in
ractapittam ; with trikatu, triphala, chaturjata,
sharkara, and honey, taken in the morning in pthisis,
piles, and jaundice ; with essence of guduchi and fine
molasses (or sugar) in spermatorrhoea ; with ela,
gokshura, bhudhatri, sharkara, and clarified cow’s
butter, in mutrakrichra ; with pippali and honey in
giddiness and remittent fever ; with' honey and tri-
phala for improvement of eyesight ; with essence of
murba in boils, carbuncles, etc., with bhallataka in
piles 5 with shunthi, root of puskara, bhargi, asva-
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gandha, and honey, in batabyadhi (paralysis etc.) ;
with chaturjatam and sugar in excess of pittam ; with
katphalam, pippali, and honey, in excess of phlegm ;
with all the ksharas for increase of the power of
digesting food ; with ela, gokshura, bhudhatri, cow's
milk, and sugar, in mutraghata, rautrakrichchra, and
ashmari • with cow’s milk and bhumi kushmanda for
increase of strength ; with juice of vijaya for reten-
tion of semen 5 with labanga and honey for increase
of the dhatus ; with cow’s milk and sugar in excess
of pittam (animal heat) ; with shaileya, pippali, and
honey, in all sorts of spermatorrhoea ; with haritaki
and molasses in bataractam 3 with triphala, honey
and ghee in eye-diseases and for increase of semen 3
and with the trisugandhi, triphala, trikatu, sharkara,
nagakeshara, and honey in jaundice, pthisis, and fever.
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anuqRi ?t«n ^ qferW gaj^qR, ii
<g^^' wg t sq t lq mctRrroct^flqq, i
ff^qgrajjjpifi q«qi%qf s^qjj, ii
General directions for use of mica.
One should take every morning for a whole year,
a pill, one nishka in weight, made of one racti of
incinerated mica and an equal quantity of amalaki,
trikatu, and vidattga. The dose is to be increased to
two such pills, to be taken every morning during the
second year. It is similarly to be raised to three
pills, being taken every morning during the third year,
A man taking one hundred palams of incinerated mica
in the aforesaid way grows very strong with an
adamantine constitution. One who takes mica in
this way, and observes regulations for proper diet,
becomes free, in three months, from all sorts of diseas-
es, including pthlsis, five different kinds of cough,
heart disease, gulma, chronic diarrhoea, piles, fistula,
rheumatism, consumption, jaundice, and eighteen
different kinds of leprosy.
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Dietary to be observed by one
who takes mica.
One who takes mica should avoid taking the
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following : — ksharas, amlas, pulses, karkati, karabella,
brintaka (egg fruit), karira, and oils.
aTOwrapPRjot I
s?nsRt«?si m tPil
Evil effects of taking micct^ not properly incinerated.
Mica, not properly incine»ated, including that
which has not been deprived of its glaze, may, all on a
sudden, put an end to the life of one who takes it
internally. Such mica also gives rise to all sorts of
diseases, like the fur of a tiger, which finds its way
into the belly or any other part of the body,
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Removal of the evil efects of impure mica.
One is freed from the evil efifects of taking impure
mica, if one takes for three days amalaki fruit,
rubbed with water.'
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Extraction of essence of mica.
First process.
Mica, powdered and immersed for one day in
aranala, and mixed with a little of shuranam, and
with one fourth its quantity of tankanam and a few
shaphari fishes, is to be subjected to bhavana with the
juice of the tuber of banana plant. This is then to be
rubbed with she-buffalo’s stool, made into a lump,
dried, and heated in a kostham by a strong fire made
of banyan wood, resulting in the extraction of an
essence. This essence is superior to all the metals
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in efficacy, and may be used for prevention of senili-
ty and diseases, after being duly incinerated. This
essence, found in the form of small particles, is to be
collected, kept in a crucible, and heated in conjunction
with what is called, the ‘‘Mitra-panchakam” (or the
five friends) with the result that the particles of the
essence will smelt together into a mass, resembling
a piece of bell-metal. This essence is to be purified
and incinerated in the same way as iron.
The pancha-mitram are— (i) ghee, (2) honey,
(3) guggulu, (4) gunja, and (5) tankanam. They
bring about a combination of the seven different
metals by being heated together by a fire made of
char-coal, #
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Second process of extraction of essence of ntica.
Purified mica, with one fourth its quantity of
tankanam, is to be rubbed with the juice of mushali
and heated steadily by means of a kosthi jantram.
This will lead to the coming out of the essence.
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bard metals.
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5qT5rT!T qfTO TqJT^ KTf^qj-
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Third process.
Mica is to be rubbed separately with each of the
following, and dried in the sun, after it is rubbed every
time :— kasamarda, musta, basaka, punarnaba, brahmi
or hilamochika, karabella leaves, and hansapadi.
It is then to be rubbed separately with one eighth
its quantity of each of the following, and similarly
dried in the sun : — powdered wheat, small fish, and
tankanam. It is next to be rubbed with the milk,
curd, ghee, urine, and stool of a goat, or a cow, or a
buffalo, and made into a small ball, a little bigger
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n«i^.S)39npar: i
than a tinduka fruit. The ball is then to be subjected
to heat in a patala kosthi, which lets the essence drop
downwards and deposit itself down below. # The
remains of the ball are to be freed from dirt, rubbed
with a little of tankanam and cow-dung, and again
made into a ball which is to be dried and heated in
the afore-said manner, for the extraction of more
essence. The remains of the second ball, if there
are any, are again to be treated in the same manner
for the extraction of more essence,
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II
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Fmttk process.
Essence of mica is extracted, if it is rubbed with
the powder of each of the following, and a sufficient
quantity of milk, made into a ball, and then heated
in a kosthi Jantram -.—molasses, guggulu, laksha,
sesamus cake, tankanam, wool, rala, and small fishes.
By this process, it is possible to obtain essences even
of such hard things as stone, earth, etc., not to speak
of mica.
• See vol I, page 364.
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Fifth process.
Dhanya abhratn is to be rubbed with the follow-
ing in order of their occurrence : — tankanam, molas-
ses, tankanam, red glass, mahisha-panchakam,
laksha, exudation of sarja tree, juice of the tuber
of banana, small fish, juice of shuranam, juice of
castor leaves, hingu duly purified (by being fried
with ghee), tankanam, juice of wild shuranam, and
honey. The whole thing is to be made into a ball,
and dried. This is then to be subjected to heat
(by means of a kosthica Jantram) which turns it into
some thing resembling oxidised iron. This lump is
then to be powdered and essence of mica, very fine
and soft, is to be collected from these powders.
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swift fgf^t I
First process of ^purification of essence of mica.
The essence of mica is to be purified and inci-
nerated in the same way as iron (see later).
laraw ww: I
sm €(«4<?><OR5if<i3 i
nwPT 5^51 n*) i gH T fra: i
?ft fs' ii *
Second process of purification.
The particles of essence of mica are to be kept
confined with the shodhaniya gana and sour kanji,
in a crucible, and heated until the smelting of the
particles. The essence is then to be heated again
twice. Thus purified, the essence becomes fit, by
incineration, for being swallowed by mercury and for
use as a rasayanam (r*. a medicine which prevents
and cures physical decay and senility). T
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t For meaning of shodhaniya gaoBt see vol, I, page 506.
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Incineration of essence of mica.
First process.
Mica is to be incinerated in the same way as iron.
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Second process.
Essence of mica, mercury, and sulphur, each equal
in quantity, are to be rubbed with the juice of kanya,
and heated in a Baluka-jantram for two days, (con-
fined in samputam consisting of two earthen basins #).
The contents of the samputam or “Malla Musha*’ are
then to be taken out and taken in doses of one masha
(/, six gunjas) a day. Thus taken, it cures in a
short time, pthisis, consumption, cough, gonorrhoea of
an obstinate type, jaundice, and thinness.
* Sea page a6o, vol I, under "Another kind of Baluka Jantram,"
and page 291, ibid, under "Malla Musha."
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Third process.
Essence of mica is to be powdered very fine and
sifted through a piece of fine cloth. It is then to be
heated in a piece of earthen vessel, until it gets red
hot, or until a straw thrown upon, it is reduced to
iEshes. The powder is then to be rubbed with sulphur
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and the juice of the aerial roots of a banyan tree, and
subjected to baraha putam for twenty times. It is
then to be rubbed with decoction of triphala and
subjected to putam for twenty times more. It is
then to be rubbed separately with each of the follo-
wing, and subjected to putam after every act of
rubbing : — triphala, mundiri, bhringaraja, haritaki,
bibhitaki, and mula. The essence of mica, thus
incinerated, gains in efficacy. If subjected to putam for
a hundred times, it proves more efficacious, and
acquires the power of digesting food, and increasing
appetite. It cures all sorts of diseases, if taken in
doses of half a racti, with suitable anupanam.
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asai: i
atfta sain: ii
a^' RRal****! a mia^ i
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Fourth process.
Lump of essence of mica is to be heated and
cooled by being thrown into unfiltered kanji and
broken into pieces immediately by means of an iron
bar. The pieces which cannot be finely powdered by
hammering are to be again heated, thrown into kanji,
and hammered again, as before. The powders, thus ob-
tained, are to be mixed with cow’s ghee, and heated red
hot for three times, being rubbed every time with the
juice of the fruits or leaves of amalaki after the powder
gets red hot, It is then to be subjected to putam for
ten times, being rubbed each time with the juice of
punarnava, mixed with kanji. It is next to be sub-
jected to putam for ten times more, being rubbed each
time with an equal quantity of sulphur. Essence of
mica, thus incinerated, becomes the most efficacious,
and may be used in the exhaustion of mica, and for pur-
pose of prevention and cure of diseases and, •senility,
srr m* \
Hov) incinerated essence of mica is
to be used.
The general rule with regard to the use of inci-
nerated essence of mica, kanta iron, and tikshna iron
is that each of these is to be subjected to bhavana
with decoction of triphala for as many times as are
necessary for making the incinerated metal assume a
black appearance It is then to be dried, and sifted
through a fine piece of cloth, mixed with the juices of
bhringaraja, amalaki, haridra, honey, goats’ ghee, cow's
urine, and kept for a month inside a heap of paddy,
confined within an iron samputam. The mica, thus
treated, is a very good medicine. It increases longe-
vity to a great extent, if taken for one year, with ghee
and honey.
sftsuftsu, I
Softening of essence of mica.
All sorts of hard essences, including those of metale^
are softened, if smelted with honey, oil, fat, and ghee,
and cooled— all these being done for, ten times.
I
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wmC Jififer i
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sroiits«*iw: I
5ra 3ira^ TO^tTOff II
Liquefaction of mica
First process.
Dhhanyabhram is to be rubbed with the juice of
agastya leaves and kept confined within a tuber of
shuranatn. It is then to be placed inside a pit, 1%
foot deep, cut in a land where cows are kept. This
mica will be found to resemble mercury, if taken out
after a month.
5?riW!!i5n5rrf^ I
nHT? first first ^^t; vt: ii
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st^ 'q i t^iiii t
Stt^fi g ijSt 'JSt VI! w I
is‘ fi?i5W SI fiithfft m^it 11
Second process.
Purified leaves of black mica are to be soaked
with pilu oil, and dried in the sun, the process being
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repeated over and over again, for one weak. They
are then to be rubbed with the amla barga ( see
page 301, Vol I ) and similarly to be dried. Next
are to be procured equal quantities of ksharas
of the following, powdered well : — snuhi, arka, arjuna,
chitraka, katutumbi, jabakshara, swarjikshara, and
tankanam. The mica leaves are then to be rubbed
with these ksharas and subjected to bhavana for
three days with the decoction of the following : — bajra-
kanda, kshira-kanda, brihati, kantakari, and bana
brintaka. The mica leaves are then to be coated w.ith a
concentrated solution of the ksharas mentioned above,
kept on a bell metal pot and dried, the process being
repeated, as many times as necessary, for th«*';e days,
resulting in the liquefacdon of mica.
Third process.
Dhanya abhram with an equal quantity of pow-
dered karkoti fruit and mitra pachchakaro, (or
panchamritam — see page 44) combined, is to be rubbed
with a sour juice for one day, and heated in a
crucible resulting in a liquefaction.
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Fourth process.
Dhanya abhram with one fourth its quantity
of cow’s flesh and saindhava are to be rubbed
for three days with the milks of snuhi and arka,
and with the juice of basaka, and made into a
ball which is to be put inside the tuber of a banana
plant, coated all over with mud. The whole thing is
to be heated, for three days, by means of a fire made
of cow dung cakes, resulting in a clear liquefaction
of the mica.
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Fifth process.
Mica is to be powdered very fine and subjected
to bhavana with human oil (fat). # It is then to be
subjected to heat by being put into a crucible, pre-
viously coated all over its inner surface, with a worm
called indra gopa or gopendra. The result will be
a liquefaction of the mica,
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* See glojsaiy.
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mfc ^ TO* JTrar ft^wroR^jr^ n
Sixlk process.
Powdered white mica is to be subjected to bhavana
with cow’s urine and then with the juice of banana.
It is then to be confined in a blind crucible and sub-
jected to heat over and over again until it turns into
a liquid.
i^era?wi: fis' I
jfef aJm 3inlt
Seventh process.
Essence of Dhanya abhram, rubbed with the juice
of bajra balli and saubarchala salt, and subjected
to putam for several times, assumes the appearance of
mercury,
w ewist «!»«?# H
Eighth process.
Powdered devadali, subjected to bhavana for many
times, with its own juice, if thrown upon essence of
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swritseflmi! I
mica, causes the liquefaction of the latter. This
liquid comes to be condensed of itself, and even
changes itself into gold, in course of time.
si^ firfe: I
Ninth process.
(The process of liquefying all the metals).
Essence of mica as well as any metad undergoes
liquefaction, if powdered tuber of kanchuki, already
subjected to bhavana with its own juice, is thrown
upon it.
^u!iaMiR»R!Sim>fllnan»)3R«i i
*ri^ «
How to amalgamate more than one metal in a
state of cold liquid.
More than one such liquids amalgamate, if rubbed
with the juice of palasha seeds, mixed with black
aguru, musk, manas-shila, onion, and white hingu,
and heated.
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Transformation of tin into silver by means of mica.
White mica, white glass, aconite, saindhava, and
tankanam are to be rubbed with the milk of snuhi
for one day and made into a paste with which are
to be coated the surfaces of a tin foil four times in
weight of the paste. The tin foil is next to be sub-
jected to heat in a blind crucible. When smelted,
it will have to be poured into putranjiba oil. The pro-
cess of coating with paste, heating, and then immersion
into putranjiba oil is to be performed for seven times
each, respectively, with the result that the tin will
turn into a very fine white silver.
<jkrei'
W aimii wa ii
Second process.
White mica, sulphur, mercury, and a red flower —
these four, rubbed with the milk of sehundu, turn tin
into silver.
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Makshikam ipyrite^.
The makshjka, which, on being broken to pieces,
presents a surface bright with golden tints, with a
rather black interior is superior to the common vaiiety.
This variety of makshika is called, ‘‘Brihad bama*’,
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or having a superior colour (swarna-makshika).
Makshika is of two kinds, viz, swarna naakshika and
roupya makshika. The first has got golden tints and
is to be found in kanya-kubja ; the other variety,
called roupya makshika, which resembles gold parts
fine and contains much of stone is to be found in
the banks of river Tapati. It is of inferior quality.
Both these varieties of pyrites grow in rocks abounding
in golden ores. They are generally found in the river
Tapi, kirata, china, and kanauj. These are generally
visible in spring in the hot bed of the river Tapi.
The makshika which has golden tints is sweet in
taste, and that which resembles silver in appearance
is sour in taste. Both of them are a little astringent
in taste, have a codling effect on the system, turn
pungent after their being digested in the stomach,
and are light. One who takes makshikam regularly is
never overwhelmed with senility, disease, and poison.
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Detailed classification of pyrites,
Makshikas are of three different kinds, viz, yellow,
white, and red. They are also sub-divided into
four classes according to their shape, due to the
difference in the location of the soils in which they
are to be found, viz, (i) round like a kadamba flower,
(2) having the shape of an oyster shell (3) having
the shape of a finger ring, and (4) resembling burnt
tubari in colour.
Of these varieties, the one which is yellowish is
called swarna makshika, and that which is reddish is
called bimala, « Swarna makshika is the best of all
these varieties. It has the colour of gold ^ parts
fine. Bimala is a bit inferior in quality to swarna
makshika. Similarly, the makshika which has the
shape of an oyster shell and some other varieties
having the colour of silver are the worst of all. As
regards merit of these different varieties, it depends
upon the quantity of gold contained in each.
3<ring: «
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Bim&la is separately treated later on-
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aig^5<raqi 5 kji ^isnpr: ?i5t: i
!f ^ gm: ^ II
5< ! lRf ftrraii
Swarna-makshika is so called because it contains
a little of gold. It is a semi-metal containing a little
of gold, and, therefore, has to a certain extent, the
qualities possessed by gold ; but, on account of its
containing other ingredients, it has got other qualities
also. Swarna-makshika has the appearance of gold,
has no angles, is heavy, leaves a black impression
when rubbed on the palm. The swarna-makshika
which is superior in quality should have the following
characteristics ; gold like complexion, heaviness, soft-
ness, a little blue tint, and causing a gold-like impres-
sion, when rubbed on a piece of touch stone.
The second variety is roupya makshika. It has
the colour of silver. It is so called because it contains
a little of silver. It is therefore inferior to swarna-
makshika in quality Not only does it possess some
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of the qualities of silver, but it has got some other
qualities also on account of its containing some other
ingredients.
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Merits of makshika.
Makshika cures all sorts of diseases. It is the
soul of mercury, so to speak, is nutritive, and can
help the combination of two metals, otherwise difficult
to combine. It is one of the best of all medicines,
competent to cure all sorts of diseases and to prevent
senal decay. Especially, it improves eye-sight, and
cures diseases of the abdomen, leprosy, jaundice,
venereal diseases, poison, udara-roga, piles, drojffly,
pthisis, itches, and an abnormal excess of the three
doshas.
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ggt'gtTl^'M ^ mfti^ II
Evil ejects of taking makskika^ not properly purified.
Makshika, not properly purified and incinerated,
gives rise to loss of appetite, loss of vigour, swelling
of the belly with gas attended with constipation, eye
diseases, leprosy, scrofula, carbuncle, and even death.
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Purification of Makshika.
Makshika is to be boiled with human urine, and
then to be confined within the tuber of a shuranam,
and again boiled for one day in a Dola-Jantram with
the juice of kodrava, juice of amla betasa, the amla-
varga, tankanani, and trikatu. It is then to be boiled
for one day with the juice of banana plant, and then
subjected to putam, after having been rubbed with
ghee and castor oil.
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5rh : q% II
fn5r#F??ft ^ it I^ct ii
Second process.
Three parts of raakshika and one part of rock
salt are to be boiled in an iron pot with the juice of
matulunga or jambira ( lime fruit ), and turned all the
while with an iron ladle, until the makshika gets red
hot and assumes the colour of copper.
qail^ai nii^sm ii
^pspj^nn PrsijfiRw: i
jp: ftst 5p: u
Third process.
The root of shigru is first of all to be rubbed with
the juice of agasti flower, and then with the juice of
pashana bhedi. The whole thing is then to be
rubbed with makshika and made into a ball, which
( duly dried ) is to be subjected to heat in a blind
crucible by means of 20 pieces of cowdung cakes.
It is then to be rubbed as before, and heated in the
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same way. The process is thus to be performed for
six times, leading to the purification of makshika.
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Fourth process.
Makshika, reduced to powder, is to be put inside
a ball made of meghanada and pashana bhedi, rubbed
together with water. The ball is then wrapped up
in a piece of cloth and boiled, for one day, by means
of a Do|a Jantram, filled with a decoction of kulattha
grams. Thus purified, the makshika becomes fit for.
being incinerated.
rr iniTirV ^
'Riw wrai I
f^ . , . V ^ , r>. .
Fifth process.
Makshika, finely powdered, is to be wrapped up in
a piece of cloth, and boiled by means of a Dola
Jantram, filled with the juices of tanduliyaka and
shalincha. The substance deposited at the bottom of
the Dola Jantram is to be considered purified.
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^i ni?i»^ ?i»si>j^<t«iiwsa ^<ijf I
55^ !jra ?%! II
SixiA process.
Makshika, duly wrapped up in a piece of thick
cloth, is to be boiled for three days, in a Dola Jantram
to be filled with kanjika, lime juice mixed with cow’s
urine, and juice of jayanti leaves, respectively,
fwfe; I
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ini^ fsn 11
SeveniA process.
Makshika is to be rubbed for three hours with
castor oil, and then heated in a basin by a fire made
of thirty pieces of cowdung balls found dried in a
pasturage.
swpfl SWTOWT I
feg* qt qgL<!n«<K^ 1
an' gfeftwrfe H
T.V ^
>9» <;isr'Sif«isPf(vf; ■■
Eighth^ ninth and tenth processes.
Makshika is purified, if boiled with castor oil
mixed with the juice of matulunga fruit ; or if boiled
for two hours with banana plant juice ; or if heated
and soaked with decoctipxi of triphala,
firfq: I
fewsnp? SHOT [
Eleventh process.
See first process of purification of bimala.
«r5rTfeiq5rPr«^fiFr: i ®
Twelfth process.
Makshika is purified, if it is boiled, first of all,
with the juice of nimbu ( lime fruit ), and then put
inside a paste made of the root of shobhanjana, rubbed
with the juice of basaka flower, and subjected to
putam.
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ow ^ ^ pTw I
Thirteenth process.
Makshika is purified if it is heated and immersed
in each of the following : — oil, takram, decoction of
kulattha and that of triphala.
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Incineration of Makshika.
Fzrsi process.
Makshika is incinerated, if it is rubbed with the
juice of matulunga and sulphur, confined in a crucible,
and then subjected to croda putam •t' for five times.
• ♦
II
Second process.
Makshika is incinerated, if rubbed with castor
oil, or cow's ghee, or juice of matulunga, and then
placed on a basin and heated steadily. Thus in-
cinerated, it may be used in mercurial operations, as
well as for medicinal purposes.
m g rgR>gg fa gi « q : stm mi ^ itiam i
* Basaka flower, according to another version,
t Croda puUm is snpth^ name for labaka putam (see page
298, vol I).
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fii^r i3?«Rit
mSR!! ft I
#5151^331^ ft^ sreft
gfta 5lft3 ftf»I^: II
Third process.
Makshika is incinerated, if. it is rubbed with the
decoction of kulattha, or takra ( curd diluted with
water ), or goats urine, and then heated in a cauldron,
and turned all the while by means of a ladle.
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S53T 3^ >iy3Ja 5 I
'»p^ i#cf I
ftisfcnj !i wi: II
Fourth process.
Makshika with one fourth its quantity of sulphur
IS to be rubbed with castor oil, and made into cakes,
which are to be confined within a samputam, and
subjected to gaja putam, with husk of paddy put on
all sides of the samputam. This will reduce the
.nakshika to ashes, as red as vermilion.
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qS EI $(d <I^(^ I
Fifth process.
Purified makshika is to be rubbed with the
juice of kumari, made into cakes, dried, and then
subjected to kukkuta putam for twenty seven times,
which make it like nectar.
■*s.
snia !R>?3j5m jrrf^w ii
Extraction of essence of makshika.
Makshikam, mixed with one thirteenth of its
weight of lead, rubbed with ksharas and amlas and
heated in an uncovered crucible, emits its essence.
The lead is then eliminated from the essence, if it is
heated and immersed in the juice of nirgundi, for
seven times.
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wij?P«raS'snv!ri jfujsisj ^ i
»n^ g|: ii
jpqf an?f I
^atow ^ #Riw It
aioras# <Rff ii
Second process.
Makshika is to be subjected to repeated bhavanas
with honey, castor oil, cow’s urine, clarified butter,
and juice of banana plant, and then heated in a
crucible, with the r^ult that a soft copper like essence
comes out of the makshika- The essence, which
resembles a gfunja seed in colour, is capable of smelt-
ing very quickly and is cool and pure, can make the
body as strong as iron.
feftra issra II
<jgra; <11^ qp^jsi I
^ rRCf I
Third process.
Makshika, duly purified, is to be rubbed with lime
juice and heated a little with some ■ rock-salt. It is
then to be kept surrounded on all sides /with tanka-
nam, in an earthen crucible, and subjected to kukkuta
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SP!mt5«IW: I
putam. This will result in the emission of an essence,
somewhat red in colour.
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q^R? Jfqi
^IIWFH'id S?n^^3[I?R 5^ I
tm mi s»Tm 3^ ^ w
Fourth process.
Makshika is to be subjected to bhavana for one day
with the milks of cow and tuttha plant and then
rubbed and made into a lump which is to be put into
an iron tube, dried in the sun and then heated by
means of a Patala Kosthi or Patala Jantram, exactly
in the same way as mica. The inner surface of the
crucible, in this case, is to be coated with a paste
made of jayanti, powdered triphala, turmeric, molasses,
and tankanam, the last mentioned being one fourth
in quantity of the preceding four things combined.
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1^1%^ II
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5RT TOt’rf I
f :^n«rrt>iHft
gOTOT Q^fTCHT^Wf [\
Use of essence of makshika.
Essence of me^hika is to be rubbed with mercury
until the former disappears altogether. Sulphur is
then to be rubbed similarly. Liquefied essence of
mica is then to be mixed with the amalgam and made
into a ball which is to be subjected to heat for twelve
hours in a Lavana Jantram, by means of a mild fire.
When cooled of itself, the product is to be taken out,
and used in doses of one balla a day with the anu-
panam of honey, trikatu, and bidanga. Thus used,
it cures in a week, senility and all sorts of diseases
including those which are very obstinate.
8W llTnjSWi I
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Liquefaction of essence of niakshika.
Essence of makshika is liquefied, if it is mixed
with a little of the compound made of gunja seeds,
honey, and tankanam, rubbed with castor oil.
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AccompanimetUs of makshika.
Incinerated makshika is to be used in medicine
with the following accompaniments ; — triphala, tri-
katu, bidanga, and ghee.
Removal of evil ejects earned by makshika, not
properly purified.
The evil effects of makshika are removed by
decoction of kulattha or of the bark of pomegranates.
WJ ftira: I
wRiretm: strot fura^in^^: i
+Mfina«add3>l»<<ll ?r 3TO& II
Vi*
Bimala (pyrites with red tints).
Makshika with red tints is called bimala. It is
of three kinds, viz, swarna bimala ( having golden or
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yellow tints as well ), rougya biraala ( having silvery
or white tints as well ), and kansya bimala (having
tints of kansya or bell- metal as well). They are to be
recognized by their colour. All of them are globular,
furnished with angles and faces, and soft. Bimala is
a pacifier of air and animal heat in the system,
nutritive, and a good preventer and curer of diseases.
The first, viz, swarna biraala is used in operations
leading to the transformation of base metals into
gold. The second, viz, roupya bimala, is used in
operations leading to the transformation of base
metals into silver ; whereas the third, viz, kansya
bimala, is used only in medicines* In quality, the first
is better than the second, and the second is better
than the third.
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First process.
Makshika as well as bimala is first of all to be
put inside the tuber of a shuranam, and then boiled
with each of the following : — cow's urine, aranala,
oil, cow’s milk, banana plant juice, decoction
kulattha, and decoction of kodrava.
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It is then to be rubbed with kshara, amla, salt, oil,
and ghee, and subjected to putam for three times.
This is how it is purified.
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Second process.
Bimala is purified, if boiled with the decoction of
basaka.
Third process.
Bimala may be purified, if boiled well with banana
plant juice.
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Fourth process.
Bimala, as well as other metals, is purified, if
boiled with the juice of a lime fruit or of meshashrihgi.
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Fijtk process.
Three kinds of bimala are purified, if rubbed with
the juice of amla betasa, dhanya amla,. and ewe’s
urine, and boiled in a Dola Jantram for twelve hours
with the juice of banana plant.
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Sixth process,
Bimala is purified, if subjected to bhavana in
intense heat of the sun with decoctions of karkata
shringi, mesha shringi, and lime juice.
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Incineration of bimala.
First ptocess.
Bimala is incinerated by being rubbed with
sulphur and juice of lakucha, and then subjected to
putam for ten times,
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Second process.
Bimala is inqinerated, if it is subjected to Gaja-
putam for three times, after having been rubbed each
time with sulphur and juice of matulunga.
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Extraction of essence of bimala.
First process.
The inner surface of a crucible is to be coated all
over with bimala, previously rubbed well with tanka-
nam, decoction of lakucha, and ashes of raesha
shringi. The crucible is then to be dried, closed
hermetically, and heated by means of six prasthas of
charcoal, with the result that bimala discharges an
essence resembling lead. Mercury, combined with
this essence, becomes a preventer and curer of
senility and physical decay.
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Second process.
Bicnala is to be mixed with kankshi ( saurashtra
mrittika ), kasisa, tankanam, wild shuranara, kshara
of mokshaka tree, and subjected to bhavana with
juices of shigru and banana plant. It is then to be
put inside a blind crucible and heated with the result
that the bimala will discharge an essence resembling a
mixed metal containing sixteen parts of silver and
twelve parts of copper.
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Use of the essence of bimala.
One unit of essence of bimala is to be rubbed
with an equal quantity of mercury, and the same
quantity of sulphur, until the sulphur disappears al-
together ; It is next to be mixed with the following ; —
Three units of haritala, five units of manasshila,
one tenth of a unit of incinerated silver, the same
quantity of incinerated vaikranta All these are to
be mixed together and sifted through a piece of cloth,
and then subjected to heat by means of a Baluka
Jantrara,
The medicine, thus prepared, cures the following
diseases, if taken with trikatu, triphala, and ghee : —
senility which causes unhappiness, swelling of the
body, anemia, gonorrhoea, loss of appetite, piles,
chronic diarrhoea, colic, pthisis, jaundice, and all sorts
of diseases due to an abnormal excess of vayu (air)
and pittam (animal heat) in the system. For the cure
of these diseases, no other medicines are considered
necessary.
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Shila-jaiu ( Bitumen ).
Shilajatu is the exudation caused by the intense
heat of the sun, from rocks in the womb of which lie
deposited gold and other metals. It is soft as mud
and resembles shellac in appearance.
Shila-jatu is of two kinds, viz. (i) Gomutra-shila-
jatu, i.e., the variety which possesses the odour of
cow's urine ; and (2) karpura-shila-jatu, i^e.^ the
variety which has the odour of camphor. The first
of these two, viz, Go-mutra shilajatu, is again sub-
divided into two classes, viz. the variety which has
got some essence or substance and that which has got
no essence or substance. Of these two, that which
has got essence or substance is better than the other
variety.
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Shilajatu exudes from heated rocks containing
gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead, that exuding
from iron ores being the best in quality, Shilajatus
coming out of gold, silver, copper, and iron are
especially suitable for the pacification of an abnormal
excess in the system of vayu (air) combined with
pittam (animal heat), kapha (phlegm ) combined with
pittam (animal heat), kapha (phlegm) only, and the
three doshas (vayu, pittam, and kapha) combined,
respectively. For the purpose of preventing and
curing senility, the shilajatu which comes out of iron
is the best.
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Special properties of different kinds of shila-jatu.
( /) Go/d shilajatu.
The shila-jatu which exudes from ores containing
gold is sweet, slightly bitter, red like java flower,
soothing, dense, and having a tinge of red ochre.
It produces a cooling effect on the system, turns pun-
gent and bitter, when digested in the stomach #, and
paciffes an abnormal excess of va5ru and pittam.
{2) SUver shilajatu.
The shilajatu which exudes from silver ores is as
white as moon or conchshell. It has the taste of
kshara mixed with pungency sourness, and sweetness.
It is not easily digested. It gives rise to belching
and inflammation of the heart. It is dense. It cures
♦ The properties of things having different tastes, when taken
internally, are given here in brief
A sweet thing is nutritive ; it pacthes vayu and pittam, but
increases mucus and other dirts in the system. A sour thing increases
the power of digestion, make the blood impure, increases pittam,
but pacifies vayu,
A thing with a salty taste increases appetite, destroys semen,
strength, and eye-sight, pacifies vayu, but increases phlegm and
pittam*
A pungent thing increases vayu, pittam, and appetite ; destroys
phlegm, obesity, semen, etc, and causes constipation*
A bitter thing removes thirst, fever, pittam, phlegm, and im-
purities of the blood, increases vayu, but destroys Wood, semen,
flesh, etc. It is not to be taken in excess. (N. B, The use of
quinine and such bitter things causes a waste of blood, semen, flesh,
marrow, fat, and bone, leading to all sorts of diseases, especially
chronic fevm: ( Malaria and kala-azar), consumption, and paralysis,)
A thing with astringent taste destroys phlegm, blood, and pittam j
it increases vayu.
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all diseases due to pittara, and especially, anemia
and jaundice. It also cures spermatorrhoea, mucus,
chronic fever, anemia, consumptipn, enlargement of
the spleen, and diseases due to an excess of vayu.
is) Copper silorpatu.
Copper shilajatu has the same colour as that of
the neck of a peacock and of the feathers of a papiya
bird. It is bitter, pungent, and stimulant. It is a
good remover of obesity.
(^) Iron shila-jatu.
It resembles guggulu in appearance ; is bitter and
saltish ; and turns pungent and cool, when digested
in the stomach. It is a preventer and curer of senal
decay, and has the power of pacifying the three
doshas, viz., vayu, pittam, and kapha. It is the best
of all shila-jatus,
(5) Tin shila-jatu.
It is somewhat bitter, pungent, dense, mud-like,
and has the odour and colour of tin. It destroys, in
a short time, dropsy, gonorrhaea, fever, consumption,
and erysipelas.
(d) Lead shila-jatu.
It is soft, stimulating, and bitter in taste, but turns
pungent when digested in the stomach. It has the
colour of a flower. It imparts complexion, vitality,
and vigour to the person who uses it regularly.
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Test of genuine shila-jatu.
Genuine shila-jatu will burn without emitting any
smoke, and when burnt, will assume the appearance of
oxidised iron. If thrown into water, by means of grass
points, it will sink in the shape of threads.
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Properties of shUajcUus in general,
Shilajatu is neither sour nor astringent. It turns
pungent after it is digested in the stomach, It has
the merit of increasing the properties of the substance
with which it is mixed and taken internally. It
prevents and cures senal decay. It produces neither
a heating nor a cooling effect on the system,
It has the property of removing mucus and other
dirts from the system. It can also cure an exc^ of
phlegm, shaking of the limbs, stone disease, sugar in
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urine, stricture and gleet, consumption, asthma, piles
due to an excess of vayu, hysteria, insanity, nausea,
leprosy, worms, fever, jaundice, dropsy, sperma-
torrhoea, loss of appetite, obesity, pthisis, colic, gulma,
enlargement of the spleen, udara-roga, pain in the
heart, dysentery, and all sorts of skin diseases. It is
very useful as a medicine as well as in alchemy.
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Purification of shilajatu.
First process.
Shilajatu is purified, if it is rubbed for one day
with any one of the following and then dried : —
cow’s milk, decoction of triphala, and juice of bhringa-
raja.
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Second process.
Sbilajatu is to be cut into pieces and washed oS
with water for the removal of dirts. It is then to be
exposed to a smoke emitted by burnt aguru, nimba
leaves, guduchi, adhaki, java, and ghee. It is then
to be immersed for three hours in hot water or
decoction of dashamula or triphala. It is next to be
rubbed and filtered through a piece of cloth, and
kept in an earthen pot, exposed to the sun. The
dense and cream-like substance collected on the sur-
face of the liquid will have to be taken out and k^t
in another pot. The process is to be repeated as
many times as necessary, until the whole of the pure
shilajatu is taken out. The sediment is to be rubbed
again with hot water and again exposed to the suni
the dense and cream-like substance being taken out
in the foregoing manner. This cream-like substance
which is nothing but pure shilajatu, may thus be
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collected in two months. Shilajatu, thus purified,
may be used for medicinal purposes. If thrown upon
fire, after purification, it will emit no smoke and will
have the appearance of penice. For the purpose of
increasing the strength of this shilajatu, it may be
subjected to bhavana with juices or decoction of
drugs which can pacify the three doshas.
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Third process.
Shilajatu is first of all to be washed off with water,
and dried. It is then to be subjected to bhavana with
decoctions or juices of vegetable drugs to be decided
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upon after consideration of the nature of the disease, the
patient, his habits, and the food he is accustomed to.
Such a decoction is prepared by boiling in an earthen
pot the vegetable drug, equal in quantity to the
shilajatu, meant to be purified, with eight times its
weight of water, to be reduced to one fourth the
quantity of this water (or double the quantity of the
shilajatu). The shilajatu is now to be dissolved in the
hot decoction, duly filtered by means of a piece of
cloth, and dried. The process is to be performed for
seven times in respect of each kind of decoctions.
Such a shilajatu is to be administered to a patient
who has already been soothed (by taking clarified
butter mixed with a little of rocksalt), duly purified by
purgation, and has taken for three days clarified butter,
prepared with bitters (such as panchaticta ghritam).
Such a patient is to take shila-jatu with a decoction of
triphala on the first day, with a juice of patola on the
second day, and with a decoction of jasti-madhu on
the third day ; the order being repeated so long as it
is considered necessary to let the patient take shila-
jatu. Taking of shilajatu in this way proves to be
very useful.
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Fourth process.
In order to free shilajatu from impurities due to
foreign matters and contaminations caused by worms,
flies, and poisonous drugs, it should be dissolved in
iron pots with a solution of juices of nimba, guduchi
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mixed with clarified butter, and java in the manner
described below : —
In the hot weather, when the sky isfree from clouds
and there is no wind, four pots made of black iron
are to be placed in a level piece of land, heated by
the sun’s rays. Excellent shilajatu is to be kept in
one of these pots and dissolved with twice its weight
of hot water and half its weight of the solution
referred to above. This solution is to be duly filtered
through a piece of cloth and exposed to the heat of
t^e sun, which will cause a black cream-like thing,
rise on the surface of the solution. This cream-
like substance is to be removed into another pot and
mixed with some hot water. The heat of the sun
will cause a cream-like substance rise at the surface
of the liquid. This substance is to be removed into
a third pot and mixed with hot water, as before. The
cream-like substance rising on the surface of the
third pot will have to be removed into the fourth pot.
The process is to be continued until the whole of the
dirts separate from the pure substance and subside at
the bottom. The pure cream-like substance, which is
shilajatu proper, is to be taken out carefully, to the
exclusion of the water and sediments.
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Fifth process.
In a hot weather, black Iron shilajatu is to be
dissolved with decoction of triphala, duly filtered and
dried. The process is to be performed for three
times. The same process is to be performed for three
times each with dasha-mula, guduchi, bala, patola,
madhuka, and cow’s urine, respectively. The shila-
jatu is next to be saturated with milk for one time,
and dried. It is next to be saturated for seven times
with a decoction of all (or as many as can be procured)
of the following combined ^ — kakoli, kshira-kakoli,
meda, mahameda, bidari, kshira-bidari, shatabari,
draksha, riddhi, vriddhi. rishabha, jataraansi, mundiri,
white jira, black jira, sapta-parni, prisniparni, rasna,
puskara-raulam, chitraka root, danti, gaja-pippali,
indra-java, chavya, musta, katu-rohini, karkata-shringi,
and path a.
The shilajatu is next to be subjected to bhavana
with a juice or decoction of each of the undermen-
tioned drugs, called the shala-saradi : —
Shala, pita-shala, nata ’ karanja, visba-karanja,
khadira, sweta chandanam, racta-chandanam, garda-
bhanda (gaya-aswatha), arjuna, white lodhra, red
lodhra, dhava, asana, shirisha, aguru, and kaliya (pita
chandanam). These drugs, taken together, are called
the shala-saradi. They can cure diseases due to an
excess of phlegm, spermatorrhoea, gulma, piles,
leprosy, obesity, and jaundice. The shtla-jatu is to be
subjected to bhavana at night, and dried during day
time. The rule regarding the quantity of the drugs
mentioned above is this that the quantity of each of
these drugs will be equal to that of the shila-jatu and
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that each of them is to be boiled in eight times its
weight of water, reducible to one eighth (or one
fourth, according to a different practice).
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Sixth process.
Shila-jatu is purified, if it is dissolved with a
solution of kshara, amla (non-metallic acid), and cow’s
urine, and then filtered by means of a piece of cloth,
and dried.
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Seventh process.
Shilajatu is purified, if it is dissolved, in an iron
pot, with milk, decoction of triphala, and decoction of
bhringaraja, respectively, and dried each time it is so
dissolved.
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Eighth process.
Shilajatu is purified, if it is subjected to a hot
vapour for one hour, by means of a Swedani-Jantram
containing kshara, amla, and guggulu,
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Tesi of purified shilajatu,
Shilajatu, properly purified, will burn without
emitting any smoke. When sufiiciently ro£(^ted, it
will assume the appearance of penice. If thrown
into water by means of the points of a grass, it will
sink in the shape of thread.
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C/se of purified shilajatu.
Purified shilajatu, taken with milk and a suitable
quantity of incinerated iron (dose of iron — tola a
day) has the effect of increasing- vitality, curing and
preventing senility, strengthening the system, and
increasing memory and retentive faculties in one who
takes a sufficient quantity of milk (and of course a
salutary and congenial vegetable diet # ). Shilajatu
produces an appreciable effect, if it is taken for one
week ; it produces better result if it is taken for three
weeks ; and if taken for seven weeks, it produces
much better results. One who takes shilajatu for six
weeks, observing all the regulations to ‘be followed with
regard to the use of medicines meant for the cure and
prevention of senility, lives a happy and healthy life
for loo years. Dose of shila-jatu — one tola a day is
the ordinery dose ; two tolas a day produces a better
effect 5 and four tolas a day produces an excellent
effect.
While taking shilajatu, one should avoid foods
which are fried, roasted (with or without oil), sour,
fermented, and heavy. The man who takes shilajatu
* Milk proves injurious to the system, if it is taken with such
things as meat, fish, sours, beans, etc, (See Charaka and other books
on Indian Hygiene).
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should abstain from taking, once for all, kulattha gram,
in as much as the latter can corrode even stone, and
has therefore a property which destroys the effect
which shilajatu produces upon the human system.
The man who takes shilajatu should avoid the
following, not only during the period he takes it, but
also during an equal period of time just preceding
and following that period 5 — physical exercise,
exposure to the sun’s rays, exposure to wind,
things which trouble the mind, heavy food, food
which gives rise to inflammation of the body, i. c.,
food which is sour, pungent, fried with or without
oil, fermented, and food which is difficult to digest.
He should drink rain water, carefully collected
during the rainy season, and water from big wells and
fountains, fie should avoid, once for all, kulattha
gram, kakamachi, and flesh of pigeons.
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Jncimration of shilajatu,
Shilajatu is incinerated, if it is mixed with manas-
shila, gandhaka, and haritala — all rubbed together with
the juice of matulunga, and then subjected to putam
with a fire made of eight pieces of cowdung cakes.
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Use of incinerated shilajatu.
Incinerated shilajatu, in doses of 3 ractis, mixed
with an equal quantity of kanta iron, vaikranta,
triphala, trikatu, and ghritam should be prescribed in
jaundice, anemia, pthisis, loss of the power of diges-
tion, spermatorrhoea, piles, gulma, enlarged spleen,
udara-roga, all sorts of colic, and diseases of the
vagina.
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Essence of shilajatu.
\Shila-jatu discharges its essence, if rubbed with the
dravana-varga and some vegetable acid, and heated in
a crucible by a strong fire made of coal, which is to be
blown by means of bellows. The essence, thus
extracted, has the appearance of iron. It should be
incinerated and applied in medicines in the same way
as iron.
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Karpura-shila-jatu (pr skilajatu having the odour
and appearance of camphor).
It is found in the shape of sands, is yellow-white
in colour, and is efficacious in stricture, gleet, stone
disease, spermatorrhoea, gonorrhoea, jaundice, and
anemia. It is purified, if dissolved and boiled well
with a decoction of ela. The sages have not consi-
dered it necessary to incinerate it, and to extract an
essence from it.
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Evii effects of taking impure shila-jatu.
Shila-jatu, not properly purified, gives rise to
inflammation, hysteric fits, giddiness, hemorrhage,
loss of appetite, and constipation,
Hoisi to cure the diseases due to the use of impu/re
shila-jatu.
The diseases due to an improper use of shila-jatu
may be cured by taking, for seven days, marioham
(in doses of ^ of a tola a day), mixed with ghee.
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Sora^ a kind of shila-jat-u
Shila-jatu is of two kinds, viz, the one which is
procured from hills, and the other which is found
deposited on the surface of a salty soil, due to the
action of rain water on the soil. The second kind of
shila-jatu is a white kshara (viz. carbonate of potash).
It improves the power of digestion, and the com-
plexion of the skin, and is efficacious in urinary
diseases.
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Tuttham {sulphate of copper ^prepared in laboratory.)
It is a compound of copper, and sulphur, prepared
by those who know the process. It possesses to a
certain extent the properties of copper and is more-
over, of the following description : — It is pungent,
alkaline, astringent, nauseating, light, destroyer of fat,
purgative, cold, improver of eye-sight, pacifier of
phlegm and animal heat, and efficacious in poison,
stone disease, leprosy, itches, and worms.
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Purification of tuttham.
First process.
Tuttham is purified, if it is rubbed with the juice of
lime fruit and subjected to laghu putam, and then
subjected to bhavana for three times with curd water.
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Second process.
Tuttham is purified, if it is rubbed with the stools
of cat and pigeon, and then subjected to laghu
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putam for three times, after having been rubbed with
one tenth its weight of tankanam, curd, and honey,
respectively.
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Third process.
Tuttham is purified and deprived of its properties
of causing vomiting and giddiness, if it is subjected
to putam for three times, after having been rubbed
with an equal quantity of the stool of cat, one fourth
its quantity of tankanam, and a little of honey.
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Fourth process,
Tbttham is purified, if it is rubbed with half its
weight of sulphur, and then subjected to putam, as
many times as necessary, for the removal of vomiting
and giddiness.
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Fifth process.
Tuttham is purified, if it is saturated with the
amla varga (see page 301, vol I) and with oil,
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or
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clarified butter, and then boiled for one day in the
urines of horse and cow, in a Dola Jantram.
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Extraction of essence from tuttham.
First process,
Tuttham dischargs its essence, if it is smelted with
an equal quantity of borax.
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Second process.
Tuttham discharges its essence, if heated in a blind
crucible, after having been rubbed with one tenth
its weight of the following and made into a ball : —
guggulu, tankanam, lac, swarji, sarja rasa (rala),
saindhava, urna (fur), gunja, small fish, bone of
hare, oil cakes mixed with gunja, honey, clarified
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twtter, and goat’s milk. This essence is no other than
pure copper.
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{Extraction of essence from tuttham without the
application of heat).
Third process
Essence is extracted from tuttham without any
application of heat, if powdered tuttham is kept
iihmersed for seven days in lime juice in an iron pot.
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Hovo to extract copper from feathers of peacock.
Peacock’s feather is to be burnt with ghee and
honey. The ashes, thus prepared, are to be mixed
with oil cakes, guggulu, small fishes, tankanam, swarji,
honey, gunja, lac growing on aswattha tree, and
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ghee. All these are to be mixed together and made
into a lump which is to be heated in a blind crucible,
resulting in the extraction of a kind of copper,
called “Nagatamram.”
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wiai gjiaT aa' giaftrag. I
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The fin^ei' fing tuhick cutes colic and netUtalises poison.
Essence of tuttharo, nagatamram, and gold are
to be taken in equal quantities and made into a ring,
the touch of which removes colic pain instantaneously.
It also overcomes all sorts of poison and evil infiu*
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ences caused on human beings by the evil eyes of
ghosts and witches. According to Bhaluki, the great
chemist, water drunk seven times, each time touched
with this ring and sanctified with the chanting of the
mantram given in the text, cures colic pain instanta-
neously. The oil which is heated over fire, with this
ring kept immersed in it, cures any sort of pain, by
merely being rubbed on the part of the body affected.
It also effects a speedy and painless child birth in a
woman. It also cures eye diseases in a very short
time. #
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Sasyakam or the stone.
It has the colour of the neck of a peacock. The
difference between tuttham and sasyakam lies in the
fact that tuttham is prepared in the laboratory,
whereas sasyakam is a mineral found in nature. In the
absence of either of these two, the other may be used.
* Seepage 114 for a difiereut prescription.
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Qualities of sasy aka.
It is a remover of an abnormal excess of the three
doshas. It is efficacious in poison, heart disease,
colic, piles, leprosy, amla pittam (dyspepsia with
acidity and an abnormal excess of pittam), constipa-
tion, leucoderma, and toxin. It also cures and prevents
senal decay. It causes vomiting and purgation.
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Purijkaiion of sasyakam
First process.
Sasyakam is purified, if subjected to bhavana for
seven times with the racta-varga, and saturated very
carefully with the sneha-varga, after each act of
bhavana. —
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effect an immediate cure of colic by touch only. It
has also the properties possessed by the finger ring
referred to in page 109.
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Incineration of the essence of tutlham and that of
sasyakam.
First process.
Essence of tuttham or of sasyakam is to be coated
all over with a paste made of the juices of pashana
bhedi and hilamochika, rubbed with sulphur, double
in quantity of the essence itself. It is then to be con-
fined in a crucible and subjected to heat by Gaja-
putam. It is again to be coated all over with a paste
made of the same juices and sulphur, equal in quantity
to the essence itself, and subjected to Gaja putam.
Performance of the second process for seven times
will result in the incineration of the essence.
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Second p/ocess.
One part of the essence, two parts of mercury,
and four parts of sulphur are to be rubbed together
with lime juice for nine hours, then covered with
dhutura leaves, and subjected to Gaja putam. The
essence, when cooled of itself, is then to be reduced
to powder. This is how it is killed.
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How to remedy the evil effects of impure tutthaka
and sasyaka.
The evil effects followed by an improper use of
tutthaka and sasyaka can be counteracted by the
taking of lime juice for three days. The same result
is obtained by the drinking of water in which fried
paddy ( not rice ) is kept immersed for some time.
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Cha^ctia, #
Chapala is obtained in mines from which lead and
tin are procured. It is of four different kinds, viz.,
gold coloured, white, red, and black. .The first two are
especially suitable for solidification of mercury. The
third and the fourth melt quickly like lac and are
useless. Chapala (meaning subtle) is so called
because it melts over fire as quickly as tin. Chapala
has the appearance of quartz. It has six faces it
is soothing and heavy.
Chapala is a curer of obesity ; it is soothing and
has the property of making the body as hard as steel.
It is a helper of mercury ; it is bitter, strong, and
sweet in taste. It is a remover of an abnormal excess
of the three doshas ; is a great nutritive, and has the
^ It appears to be ao ore containing lead or tin. It is now-
a-days ?ery rare ; and the author has not yet been able to procure it.
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property of solidifying mercury. This nectardike
substance may be used in gulma, mucus, colic, con-
sumption, gonorrhoea, fever, leucorrhoea, and menor-
rhagia.
Purification of Chapala.
Chapala is purified, if subjected to bhavana with
the juices of lime fruit, karkotaka, and ginger.
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Extraction of essence from Chapala.
The ore of chapala is to be powdered, rubbed
with kanji, poisons, and semi-poisons, and made into a
lump from which essence is to be extracted (by means
of a Patala kosthika or Patala Jantram).
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Chapala produced front lead and tin.
One hundred and twenty tolas of lead are to be
rubbed with the milk of arka, and subjected to 'heat
by putam, until the quantity of the lead is reduced to
one tola only. It will no longer undergo any dimi-
nution in quantity, even if it be subjected to putam
for one thousand times. This substance is called
chapala produced from lead. Such a chapala may also
be produced from tin in a similar manner. Mercury
is at once solidified, if grasped within the palm of a
hand, previously smeared with the chapala produced
from lead or tin. Mercury, so solidified, is commen-
dable for alchemical purposes, but not for medical
purposes.
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Rasaka or kharparo- {calamine).
Rasaka is of two kinds, viz, “Durdara” * and
“karabella.” The variety which has got layers is called
the “Durdara” and the one which has got no layers
is called the ‘‘karabella.” The first variety is to be
preferred for the purpose of extraction of essence,
whereas the second one is more suitable for purpose
of being used in medicines. Rasaka resembles in
.appearance three different things, viz, mud, stone,
and molasses. The first is yellow in colour and is
full of layers. Both the second and the third are thick
and without layers. In quality, the second is inferior
to the first, and the third is inferior to the second.
Rasaka cures all sorts of venereal diseases and
eye-diseases ; it pacifies an abnormal excess of the
three dosLas, and is a dyer of iron and mercury.
The art of transforming the body into steel becomes
a hand maid, as it were, to the person who can
make mercury and rasaka stand fire.
• “Dardura,” according to another version.
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Inabilily of Rasaka to stand fire,
Rasaka cannot stand fire. It is so combustible
that it burns on a slight heat being applied to it.
There are a few things in this world which can make
rasaka stand fire.
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Hotsj rasaka may be made to stand fire.
First process,
Rasaka can be made to stand fire, if it is rubbed
with the essence of earth-worm or with the liquid
expressed from it.
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Second process.
Kharpara is to be broken into pieces like gram,
and kept inside a blade of kanya split up into
two, immersed in ass’s urine, and boiled until the
urine evaporates altogether. This process is to be
continued for three days, after which the blade is to be
replaced by a new one, which is also to be boiled in
the same way for 3 days. This process is to be
performed thrice. This is how kharpara is enabled to
stand fire without much difficulty. If the kharpara
still emits smoke when placed on fire, it is again to be
boiled in the aforesaid way as long as necessary. The
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kharpara is next to be boiled in a solution of kshari
salt for 2 days which will result in its incineration. It
is again to be put to the test of being placed on fire.
If it still emits smoke, it is again to be boiled in the
fore-going manner, then subjected to bhavana for
seven times with the liquid expressed from earth
worms, and heated by putam after each act of
bhavana.
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Purification of kharpara.
First process.
Rasaka assumes a yellow appearance, and is puri-
fied, if it is saturated with the juice of bitter alabu
and then heated.
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Second process t
Kharpara is purified, if it is heated for seven tim^,
and is immersed in the juice of bijapura, after each act
of heating.
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Third process,
Kharpara is purified, if it is heated and immersed
in man’s urine, or horse’s urine, or whoy, or kanji.
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Fourth process.
Rasaka Is purified, if it is boiled in man’s urine or
cow’s urine for a week by means of a Dola Janiram.
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Fifth process.
Rasaka is purified, if it is rubbed with the juices
of red and yellow flowers and then subjected to
bhavana with cow’s urine, or man’s urine, or aranala,
or saubir amla, each mixed with rock salt.
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First process.
Kharpara is reduced to fine ashes, if rubbed with
mercury and subjected to heat for 8 hours, by means
of a Baluka Jantram.
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Second process.
Kharpara is incinerated, if it is placed over fire in
an iron pot, and when smelted, mixed with saindhava
salt being put upon it little by little, and turned con-
stantly by means of a rod made of Palasha wood.
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Thifd process.
Kharpara is incinerated, and ^ such, cures all
sorts of diseases, if subjected to heat by means of a
Lavana Jantram.
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Extraction of essence from Rasaka ( calamine f
First pi ocess,
Kharpara is to be rubbed with one fourth its
quantity of haridra, triphala, rala, saindhava, dhuma
(soot), tankanam, bhallataka, and a sufficient quaiitity
of the amlas (sour vegetable juices), and made into a
paste with which is to be painted the inner surface of
a crucible, called ‘‘Brintaka-musha” (see page 291 vol.
I). When dried, the crucible is to be covered with
a lid placed lightly on the mouth. The crucible is to
be heated until the rasaka gets smelted, and emits,
through a hole in the crucible, a smoke of blue white
colour. The inner crucible is then to be taken out
and turned upside down on the ground, so carefully
as not to le it break. All the essence, which has the
appearance of tin, will thus be obtained by heating the
crucible for two or three times. The essence, thus
obtained, is no other than jasoda (zinc), but the drugs,
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{z, haridra, etc.) used in the extraction of the essence,
imparts to it a quality which makes it much superior
to ordinary zinc in point of medicinal properties.
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Second pi'ocess.
Rasaka discharges its essence, if rubbed with ha-
ritaki, laksha, earth worm, haridra, soot, and tanka-
nam, and heated by means of a muka musha. #
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* Muka musha (dumb crucible) and andha musha (blind cruci-
ble) refer to the same kind of crucible — a crucible not provided
with any passage for the entrance of air into it.
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Third process,
Rasaka is to be rubbed with the powders of
laksha, gurh ( molasses ), white mustard, rala, and
tankanam, roasted with cow’s milk and ghee, and
made into a ball. It is then to be confined in a
Brintaka musha and subjected to heat in the manner
explained in the first process.
Essence from the ball may also be extracted in
the following manner Place an earthen vessel full
of water, inside a pit cut into the ground, and put an
earthen basin full of holes upon the mouth of the
vessel. The crucible containing the ball referred to
above is now to be placed upside down upon the
earthen basin, and charcoal fire to be placed all round
the crucible. This will result in the essence of rasaka
falling into the water in the vessel. #
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• This refers to what is called Patala Jantraro, (see page aSo,
vol I), a correct description of which is given here
Patala Jaotram.
In a pit in the ground, one cubit deep, place a vessel. Another
vessel containing prescribed materials and having its mouth tightiy
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Incineration of the essence of rasaka.
Essence of rasaka with haritala is to be placed
over fire upon an earthen pot or an iron cauldron, with
an equal quantity of purified haritalam being put upon
it, little by little, and turned all the while by means of
an iron rod, until the whole thing is reduced to ashes.
This powder is to be mixed with an equal quantity
of incinerated kanta iron and is to be applied in doses
covered with a basin, full of holes, is to be placed upside down
upon the mouth of the first vessel. The joints are to be closed and
the pit covered with mud. The apparatus is then to be heated bjr
means of charcoal fire being placed all round the upper vessel,
when cooled of itself, the essence, oil, or tincture, as the case may
be, is to be taken out from inside the lower vessel.
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of 8 ractis a day with the accompaniment of the
decoction of triphala, kept overnight in a kanta iron
pot, with three or four drops of oil extracted from tila,
(sesamus) put upon it. It speedily cures the following
diseases : — spermatorrhoea, pittam (an excess of the
animal heat), consumption, anemia, dropsy, gulma,
racta-gulma of women, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, dia-
betes, all sorts of vaginal diseases, malaria, kala-
azar, pain at the time of menstruation, bronchitis,
asthma, and hiccough.
Dyeing of mercwy, etc. by rctsaka.
Rasaka,kept immersed in man’s urine for one
month, acquires the property of investing pure copper,
mercury, and silver with the colour of pure gold.
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CHAPTER II.
Gandhaka {Sulphur).
Variety of sulphur.
Gandhaka is of four different kinds, according to
its colour. The white variety has the appearance of
khati or chalk ; it is capable of incinerating a metal
by besmearing the latter (with white sulphur rubbed
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with a vegetable acid, and then heating it by a putam).
The yellow variety is called the “amala-sara,'» It has
the colour of the beak of a Suka (parrot) ; it is best
suited to the requirements of mercury and of medicines
prepared with a view to cure physical decay and
senility. The red variety is best suited to the require-
ments of alchemy. The black variety is very rare ;
it is capable of overcoming senility and death.
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Properties of sulphur.
Sulphur arrests and cures physical decay and
senility ; it is sweet in taste, but turns pungent and
hot, when digested in the stomach. It cures itches,
leprosy, erysipelas, and ring worm. It increases
appetite and helps digestion of food. It destroys
mucus and eliminates it from the system. It does
away with poison, and imparts potency to mercury.
It destroys worms, and is a greater tonic than even
?old.
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Sulphur is to be puriJUd.
Sulphur contains two foreign matters, viz, parti-
cles of stone and poison. It is therefore to be
purified very carefully. Impure sulphur gives rise to
leprosy, inflammation, giddiness, diseases due to an
excess of pittam, and loss of beauty, happiness,
strength, and semen.
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Purihcaiion of Gandkaka,
First process.
Gandhaka is to be smelted with cow’s ghee, and
immediately filtered through a piece of doth into a
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pot, filled with milk, with which it is to be boiled for
24 minutes, and then washed with water. Gandhaka.
is thus purified and turns into lumps, leaving the
particles of stone on the piece of cloth, the poison in
the shape of husks being mixed with the ghee which
separates itself from the sulphur. One who takes
gandhaka, thus purified, need not be afraid of any
reactionary after-effects, even though one takes
unwholesome food at the time of taking the sulphur.
Gandhaka, not properly purified, proves as harmful
as a strong poison, especially if a bad diet is taken.
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Second process.
Gandhaka is to be smelted and thrown, through
a piece of cloth, into the juice of bhringaraja. It is
then to be powdered and boiled with the same
Juice for some time. It is next to be smelted again,
and thrown into the juice of bhringaraja. Gandhaka,
thus purified, may be used for all purposes.
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Third process.
Gandhaka, tankanam, etc. are, 6rst of ail, to be
washed with lime juice, which removes the dirt
attadied to their surfaces.
Cover the mouth of au earthen vessel by means
of a piece of cloth tightly bound, and put sulphur
upon this cloth, covering it with an earthen basin,
the joint being closed with mud, etc.. The vessel
is then to be kept inside a pit made in the ground in
such a way as to keep the brim of the vessel on the
level of the surface of the earth, the hollow round the
vessel being filled in with loose earth. A fire with
sixteen pieces of cowdung cakes is now to be made
all round the earthen basin. Sulphur, smelted by
the fire and making its way through the cloth, will
fall into the milk mixed with clarified butter, contained
' In the vessel, and will thus be purified.
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Fourth process,
Gandhaka, with one fourth its quantity of tanka-
nam, is to be rubbed with the juice of matulungu,
then powdered very carefully, and subjected to
bhavana with castor oil in the intense heat of the
sun. Thus purified) Gandhaka becomes fit for use
in every way.
(O
Hou) to take gandhaka,
(X)
Gandhaka, purified in the way described above, if
taken every morning, in doses of one fourth of a
tola a day, with triphala, ghee, juice of bhringaraja,
and honey gives the man who takes it a long life,
being free from diseases, and an eye sight as dear
and strong as that of a vulture.
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( 2 )
Sulphur, duly purified, and smelted in an iron pot,
smeared with ghee, and taken out of the pot by
means of an iron ladle smeared with ghee, may be
taken for the cure of pthisis and other diseases, and
especially of leprosy,
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(3)
Gandhaka cures skin diseases, if taken with ripe
banana fruit. It cures loss of strength, if taken with
powdered chitraka root. It also cures loss of appetite,
If taken with a decoction of triphala. All sorts of
diseases pertaining to the upper part of the body
are cured very soon by gandhaka, well prepared and
taken regularly.
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(4)
Purified sulphur increases strength and semen, if
taken for a month in doses of one fourth of a tola
per day with milk. Taken for six months at a
stretch, it cures all sorts of diseases, and increases
longevity and eye-sight.
(5)
Sulphur, five palams in quantity, is to be powdered,
saturated with three times its weight of the juice of
bhringaraja, and dried in shade (without being exposed
to the heat of fire or sun or electricity). To this is
to be added haritaki, honey, and ghee, one palam
each. The total quantity, thus prepared, is to be taken
In the course of two months (in doses of -j^th part of
the whole thing per day). This procedure* may result
in an old man. being restored to youth.
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( 6 )
A man is freed in three weeks from carbuncle,
piles, etc. if be takes sulphur, well prepared, in doses
of one fourth of a tola, rubbed with a little of tila oil,
and if he takes bath regularly every day in tepid
water. One who is habituated to take sulphur in the
above way is freed from all physicsd ailments and
diseases.
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( 7 )
One who takes powdered gandhaka, with an equal
quantity of pippali and haritaki, becomes strong and
healthy, with a very clear and keen eye-sight.
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The Rasayana Gandhaka.
( 8 )
Purified sulphur is to be subjected to bhavana
with cow’s milk, and the decoction or juice of each
of the following separately : — chaturjata, guduchi,
haritaki, bibhitaki, amalaki, trikatu, bhringaraja, and
ginger. When this is done, the product is to be
mixed with an equal quantity of sugar. The medicine,
thus prepared, is called the ‘‘Rasayapa gandhaka.”
If taken in doses of one tola a day. It prevents
waste of the dhatus, cures aH sorts of spermator-
rhoea and gonorrhoea, loss of appetite, colic, diseases
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pertaining to the stomach, and the eighteen different
kinds of leprosy. It increases semen, strength, and
power of speech.
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( 9 )
All sorts of leprosy are cured, if gandhaka is taken
with an equal quantity of maricha and six times its
we^ht of triphala, all rubbed with the juice of the
root of aragbadha, and if at the same time gandhaka
rubbed with the very same juice is applied externally.
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Sulphur oil.
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Gandhaka, purified and very finely powdered, with
one fourth its quantity of trikatu, is to be strewn over
a piece of cloth, one aratni in length and in breadth.
This cloth is then to be rolled up in the form of a
candle entwined with cotton thread, and immersed in
oil for three hours. The candle is then to be caught
hold of by means of a forcep and one of its extremi-
ties to be set fire to over a glass pot on which is to
fall smelted sulphur, drop by drop. Three drops of
this sulphur oil. thrown on a pan (betel ) leaf, is to be
rubbed by means of the tip of a finger with mercury,
three ractis in weight. The pan leaf with the sulphur
oil and the mercury is then to be swallowed. Taken
regularly, this medicine cures, in a short time, cough,
asthma, colic, chronic diarrhoea, and mucus. It
makes the system very light.
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( 2 )
A piece of cloth is to be soaked for seven times
with the milk of arka and snuhi. The cloth is next
to be soaked with gandhaka rubbed with butter,
made into a candle, and dried. This candle is to be
held tight by means of a forcep over a pot, the lower
extremity being set fire to in such a way as to let the
smelted sulphur fall, drop by drop, into the pot. This
liquid of sulphur may he used for all purposes.
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( 3 )
Powdered gandhaka is to be mixed with milk,
when it is boiled. This milk is to be converted into
curd. Clarified butter, prepared out of this curd, is
called sulphur oil. It cures cancer leprosy by internal
as well as external application.
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Dietary.
( I )
One who takes purified gandhaka should avoid
the following : — kshara, anjla, oil, fermented liquids,
fried and roasted food stuff, and pulses of all kinds.
(H)
( 2 )
One who takes gandhaka should avoid the follow-
ing : — salt, sour things, leaves of vegetables, pulses,
intercourse with women, and travels, especially on
horse back and in carriages.
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Removal of odour from sulphur.
Powdered sulphur is to be boiled with milk until
it is condensed. It is then to be boiled with the juice
of suryavarta, and then again with the decoction of
triphala. Thus treated, gandhaka is deprived of its
odour.
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Second process.
Gandhaka is to be subjected to bhavana for three
times wrrih a solution of one fourth its quantity of
tankanam, dissolved with water, and the juice of any
one or more of the following : — devadali, amlaparni,
shunthi, darima, and matulunga. The gandhaka is
again to be subjected to bhavana for three times in
an iron pot with a liquid prepared by rubbing
together the under-mentioned articles with the juice
of matulunga, and then dissolving the paste-like
thing with castor oil : — dhattura, black tulashi, rasona,
devadaliy root of shigru, kakamachi, karpura, two kinds
of shankhini (shankhapuspi and shankhodari ? ),
black aguru, kasturi, bandhya karkoti} — all of equal
quantity.
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This will render the sulphur devoid of odour, and
as soft as honey.
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Transformation of base metals by gandkaka.
( I )
Yellow sulphur and mercury rubbed with the
juice of red chitraka and milk of bajri lead to the
transformation of tin into silver.
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( 2 )
Copper is to be incinerated with gandhaka and
mixed with an equal quantity of hingula. This is
then to be rubbed with the juice of matulunga. Lead,
when rubbed with this, will be reduced to ashes as
red as red vermilion, by being subjected to putam for
three times only.
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Removal of the evil consequences of taking impure
sulphur.
This can be done by taking milk with cow’s
ghee.
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Gairikam ( red ochre).
Gsurikam is of two kinds, viz,, pjishana gairikam
and swarna-gairikam. The former is hard and
copper-coloured. The latter is very red, soft, smooth,
sweet and astringent in taste, having a cooling effect,
and improves eye-sight. It is efficacious in racta-
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pittam, hiccough, vomiting, poison, fever, and an
excess of pittam. Pashana gairikam is inferior to
swarna gairikam.
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Purification of gairikam.
Gairika is purified, if it is subjected to bhavana
with cow’s milk, or if it is roasted with a little ghee
for some time.
Extraction of essence from gairikam.
Gairikam, according to Nandi, is in itself an
essence. According to others, essence can be ex-
tracted from gairikam, commingled with ksharas and
amlas. This essence gains in efficacy, if combined
with mercury.
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C/ses of gairikam.
Gairikatn, pansu salt, shunthi, bacha, katphalam,
and kanji — all rubbed together and made into an
ointment — cure swelling of the parts around the ears
in typhoid and other fevers caused by an excess
of the three doshas. In fevers due to an excess of
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pittatn, gairikam may be used with honey, either
alone or with mercury and sulphur. It cures racta
pittam, if taken with decoction of dhanya, ushira, and
sandal or with ela and sugar. Saindhava, daru haridra,
haritaki, gairikam, and rasanjanam — all rubbed toge-
ther and made into a paste— cure all sorts of eye-
diseases, if applied to the eye-lids and the swrounding
region. Red 'sandal, laksha, buds of malati flower,
made into a paste and applied all round the eyes, cure
vrana shukram of a recent growth. Gairikam, in doses
of one fourth of a tola, taken internally four times a
day, with kanji, cures shita pittam. Gairikam with tur-
meric rubbed together and made into a paste cures shita
pittam and udarda, by external application. Gairikam,
in doses of one fourth of a tola, may be taken with
water for the cure of diseases due to an excess of
pittam. It cures visarpa due to an excess of pittam,
by being rubbed with ghee and applied externally
to the parts affected. It cures burns, by external
application with cocoanut oil or ghee. Gairikam,
kernel of the stone of a mangoe fruit, bidanga, haridra,
rasanjanam, and katphalam,— all rubbed with water
and applied externally cures itches in the vagina.
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K asisam (sulphate of iron).
Kasisam is of four different kinds, viz, white,
yellow, green, and black. The white is also called
baluka kasisa; the yellow variety is known by the
names of puspa kasisa and padma kasisa. The black
variety is called dhatu kasisa and mukta kasisa.
The green variety can easily be prepared and is
found in abundance. Kasisa is a product of iron and
sulphur. It is a kshara, sour in taste, and is of various
colours. It cures poison, eye diseases, and leucoderraa,
and is a dyer of hair. It also cures an excess of
pittam and hysteria.
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Of all the different varieties, the puspa kasisam
is the best. It is astringent and sour in taste and is
efficacious in eye diseases. It also cures poison, an
excess of vayu and phlegm, boils, leucoderraa, and
consumption. It is a good dyer of hair.
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Purification of kasisam,
Kasisam is purified, if it is boiled only once with
the juice of bhringaraja. It may also be purified by
being subjected to bhavana with the biles of aninaals
and with the menstrual discharge of women. It may
also be purified with linie juice. An essence may be
extracted from kasisam exactly in the same way as
from tubari.
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How to take kastsam.
Kasisam, incinerated with sulphur, and an equal
quantity of kanta iron, killed with kasisam, taken
with triphala, bidanga and an unequal quantity of
honey and ghee (the total quantity being one fourth
of a tola) cures very quickly the following diseases
leucoderma, jaundice, pthisis, gulma, spleen, colic, and
especially piles. If the medicine mentioned above is
taken for one year in accordance with the rules pres-
cribed for taking rasayanas, it destroys mucus, loss
of appetite, and signs of premature old age, such as
greyness of hair and falling olf of the teeth.
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Kankshi ( clay containing alum ),
Kankshi or tubari is a clay found in Surat. It can
dye clothes with the colour of manjistha. #Kankshi
is of two different kinds, viz, pitika and phullika. The
former is a little yellow, heavy, and soft, It cures
poison, boils in particular, and all sorts of leprosy in
general. The second kind of tubari is called, ‘fulla-
tubari,* It is light, white- coloured, soft, and sour in
ta§te. If applied as a paint to the surface of a
copper plate, the colour of the plate changes into that
of iron. ; It is popularly known by the name of
gopichandanam.
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Properties of kankshi.
Kankshi is astringent, pungent, sour, purifier of
throat, salutary to hair, curer of boils, poison, and
leucoderma. It improves eye-sight, pacifies the three
doshas, and helps the exhaustion of mercury.
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♦ According to another reading, it enhances the colont <rf
manjistha, if used in the dyeing of clothes.
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Purification and extraction of essence from tubari.
Tubari is purified, if kept immersed for three days
in kanji. It emits an essence, if rubbed with ksharas
and amlas and then heated. Essence is also obtained,
, if it is subjected to bhavana with cow’s biles and then
heated. The process as to how this essence is made
to transform metals is a secret one.
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The essence of tubari is called sphatika, which is
purified by being melted over fire.
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'Properties of sphatika {aluni).
Alum cures boils, patches in the lungs, and colic.
It helps the exhaustion of mercury. In appearance,
it resembles white rock salt.
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Hariialam {Orpiment').
({aritalam is a compound of sulphur and arsenic,
and is of four kinds, viz. Patra haritalam, or vansha
patra haritalam, Pinda haritalam, Godanta haritalam,
and Vakadala haritalam. The last two are very rare.
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(/) Patra haritalam.
Patra haritalam is gold-coloured, heavy, soothing
and soft, full of thin layers, and glazy. It consists of
several layers, and is competent to cure and prevent,
when properly prepared, physical decay and senility.
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{2 ) Pinda haritalam.,
Pinda haritalam has no layers, is found in lumps,
has very little essence or substance, is heavy, and
can stop the discharge of menses. It is inferior in
quality to the other varieties.
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(j) Godanta haritalam.
It is found in long bars, is very soft, has the
appearance of cow’s teeth, is heavy, and yellow with
blue streaks at the centre.
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l(^) Vakadala haritalam.
It is very soft and is generally known by the name
of col4 haritalam. It has layers, is heavy, and can
cure leucoderma and leprosy.
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Properties of purified karitalam,
Haritalam, properly purified, cures phlegm, vatarak-
tam, posion, excess of air, and fear from ghosts.
It stops menstrual discharge, is soothing, pungent, and
produces a warm effect on the system. It increases
appetite and cures leprosy.
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Haritalam fit for incineration.
For the purpose of incineration, patra haritalam is
the best suited, whereas pinda haritalam is to be
avoided. Godanta haritalam may be incinerated for
use in cancer leprosy. The vakadala haritalam is the
best for incineration with a view to being used in
leucoderma.
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Evils of using haritalam^ not properly purified.
(I)
Haritalam, not properly purified, shortens life and
gives rise to an abnormal excess of phlegm, air,
spermatorrhoea, gonorrhoea, inflammation, boils, and
contraction of the limbs. It should therdF®ra be
purified very carefully.
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(2)
The haritalam which is not purihed and which
is not properly incinerated gives rise to the following
ailments, if taken internally : — loss of beauty, inflam-
mation, spasm, excess of phlegm and air, and leprosy.
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Purification of haritalam.
Firsti second^ and third processes.
Haritalam is purified, if boiled in a Dola Jantram
with juice of kushmanda, or with a solution of the
ashes of tila plant or with water dissolved with lime.
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Fourth process,
Haritalam, broken into pieces and combined with
one tenth its weight of tankanam, is to be dissolved
with lime juice and then with kanji. It is then to be
combined in a piece of cloth made four-fold and
boiled by Dola Jantram for one day. It is next to be
boiled similarly for one day with aranala, dissolved
with lime, and then again boiled similarly for one day
with juice of kushmanda or with the juice of shalmali
bark.
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Fifth process.
Clean patra haritalatn is to be broken into pieces
wrapped up in a piece of clotbi and boiled for
six hours in the juice of lime fruit, by means of
a Dola Jantram. When cooled of itself, the bundle
is to be again boiled in the same way in each of the
following : — ^urine of she-bufFalo, juice of kanya, solu-
tion of lime, mixed with juice of musta, juice of shara-
punkha, juice of ripe lime mixed with water, and
juice of sugar-cane boiled steadily by charcoal. Thus
boiled, haritalam becomes purified.
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Sixth process.
Haritalam is to be rubbed with the urine of buffalo
and subjected to bhavana for three times with the
juice of the root of the brahma tree, made as
dense as honey. It is then to be confined in a cruci-
ble and heated for twelve times by means of fire
made of ten pieces of cow-dung cakes, each time.
Haritalam, thus purified, may be used for all purposes.
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Seventh process.
Vansha patra haritalam is purified, if subjected to
bhavana for seven times with lime water.
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Eighth process.
Haritalam is purified, if it is boiled by Dola Jantram
for three hours each with (i) kanji mixed with lime,
(2) juice of kushmanda, (3) tila-oil and (4) decoction of
triphala.
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Ninth process.
Vansa patram haritalam is to be dissolved for
three or seven times with kushmanda juice or sour
curd. When dried, this will have to be broken into
such small particles as rice. This is then to be confin*
ed inside a malla-musha, the joint being closed with a
paste made of plum leaves. The samputam is then to
be heated until the lower basin gets red hot. The
contents are to be taken out, when the whole thing
gets cooled of itself. Two gunjas of it is to be taken
with ghee and honey every day. It cures all sorts of
leprosy, fistula, ulcer, carbuncle, syphilis, eczema, and
ulcers in nostrils and throat.
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Incineration of karitalam.
First process.
Purified haritalam is to be broken into pieces,
rubbed with lime water, juice of apamarga, solution
of ksharas, and then to be kept in an earthen vessel
with powdered ksharas of barley husks put below and
upon it. This is to be covered with an earthen basin.
The remaining portion of the vessel is to be filled
with the kernel of a kushmanda fruit. The mouth of
the vessel is then to be closed. It is next to be sub-
jected to heat which is to be increased gradually at a
uniform rate, for twelve hours. Haritalam, thus
incinerated, may be used ia leprosy and other
diseases.
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Second process.
Purified vansa patra haritalam is to be rubbed in
ar mortar for one day with the juice of punarnava and
made into a lump and dried. Half the portion of an
earthen vessel is then to be filled with the kshara of
punarnava, upon which is to be kept the lump of
haritalam. The portion up to the neck of the vessel
is then to be filled with the kshara of punarnava, and
the moudi of the vessel to be closed by means of an
earthen basin, the joint being tightly closed in the
usual way. The vessel is then to be placed over fire
and heated continuously for five days, the fire being
gradually increased at a uniform rate, The haritalam
will thus be incinerated. This is to be used in doses
of one gunja a day with suitable anupanam.
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Third process.
Purified haritalam is to be subjected to bbavaaa
for 36 hours with each of the following :-^juice of
changeri, juice of nimboo ( lemon ), and lime dissolved
with water. This is next to be dissolved in water
with double its quantity of kshara obtained by reduc-
ing the stones of shalmali fruits to ashes. The
solution is then to be dried, put inside a Kavadii
Jantram, and heated by means of a Baluka Jantram
for 36 hours. When the apparatus gets cooled of
itself, the product is to be taken out, powdered and
used in doses of one racti a day, for the purpose of
curing leprosy and' elephantiasis.
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Fourth process.
Forty tolas of purified gold leaves with an equal
quantity of purified haritalam is to be rubbed with
one prastha of the juice of each of the following,
taken in order of their occurrence, until the whole
thing turns into a lump : — kanya, nimboo, sharapun-
kha, hajri, and arka. The lump is then to be dried
in the sun for seven days. In an earthen vessel are
to be kept ashes of palasha, upon which is to be kept
the lump which is to be covered with the same ashes.
The mouth of the vessel is now to be covered with
an earthen basin by means of mud, rag, etc. The
ve^l is then to be heated for 560 hours by means of
fire increasing gradually at a uniform rate. When
cooled, the white ashes of haritalam are to be
collected and used in doses of half to one tandulam
{rice) a day.
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Fifth process.
Haritalam is to be powdered vei^ fine and rubbed
for two days, with the juice of dugdhika, sahadevi,
and bala, and made into a lump, which is to be dried
in the shade and confined in a samputam or in a glass
bottle, with the ashes of palasha, placed on all sides
of the lump, and then heated by a gradually increas-
ing and strong fire by means of a Baluka Jantram or
a Handika Jantram the apparatus described in
the preceding process).
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Sixth process.
One palam of purified haritalam is to be rubbed
with the juice of kanya, dried, kept within a samputam,
and heated for 36 hours. Haritalam, thus incinerated,
can cure leprosy.
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« a ^<^fe«M«H^' at a^ atl35!Riwi
g5«sl ^ sn*^ ^ #5*R!wji
tfeaiJt ft'ffPik sBpjt^fft^ sgi
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Seventh process.
Purified Vakadala haritalam is to be rubbed in a
mortar for seven days with the juice of kanya, duly
dried, and then entered into a glass bottle with its
mouth kept open. It is then to be heated by means
of a Baluka Jantram over a strong fire. After some
time smoke of a bluish yellow colour will come out of
the glass bottle.
An iron probe is then to be inserted into the glass
bottle, with a view to turn frequently the haritalam by
means of it. This probe is to be taken out every
now and then and examined. When the probe will
be found to contain a few drops of water, bluish
yellow in colour, it is to be taken for granted that the
apparatus is to be heated for one or two days more.
When the water attached to the probe will be found
to be white in colour, the heating is to be stopped and
the apparatus to be allowed to cool of itself.
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Eighth process.
Fine powder of haritalam is to be subjected to
bhavana for twenty days with the juice of asvattha,
rubbed in a clean mortar and made into a b^l, which
is to be kept inside a vessel,, one half of which is
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filled with the ashes of asvatha bark. The remaining
portion of this vessel is to be filled again with the
same ashes, and the mouth of the vessel is to be
closed by means of a basin, as usual. The whole
thing is now to be heated for 12 hours in Gajaputam,
by means of fire made of one thousand cowdung
cakes. Haritalam will thus be .incinerated. If it is
so, it will assume a white colour and emit no smoke,
when heated by an iron rod.
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nfinf ?R^5h>*n5f
Ninth process.
Pure haritalam is to be reduced to, powder, sub-
jected to bhaivana for three times with each of the
following : — ^kanya, kushmanda, and curd ; and then
made into a ball which is to be k^t inside an earthen
vesse 4 previously filled with ashes, six angulis deep.
This vessel is then to be placed upon an iron pot, and
covered on all sides whh ashes. It is also to be filled
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with ashes up to its neck, covered closely by means of
an earthen basin placed at the mouth, and then heated
for 96 hours continuously by means of fire gradually
rising, at a uniform rale, in the intensity of its heat.
This will result in the reduction of the haritalam to
ashes having the appearance of lime. This haritalam
cures vata-ractam and fever, if taken with sugar in
doses of one grain of rice (in weight) a day.
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Tenik process.
• One part of pure haritalam is to be put inside an
earthen vessel, partly filled with ashes. Upon the
haritalam is to be put double its quantity of condmsed
smoke (soot). The mouth of the vessel is to be closed
tightly by means of an earthen vessel. The apparatira
is then to be heated for 12 hours by m^s of fire
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rising gradually in the intensity of its heat at a
uniform rate. This will result in the incineration of
baritalam which will assume a white appearance and
will emit no more smoke, even if subjected to further
heat
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Eleventh process.
Haritalam is to be washed with lime juice and
mixed with one tenth its weight of tankanam. It is
then to be confined in a piece of cloth having four
folds, and made into a bundle, which is to be boiled
by means of a Dola Jantram, with a slow heat such as
is produced by the burning of an earthen lamp lighted
with vegetable oil, for six hours, with each of the
following : — lime water, kanji, kushmanda juice, lemon
oil, and triphala. It is then to be washed with sour
vegetable juice, rubbed with the bark of the root of
palasha tree, and dried. It is next to be rubbed with
the urine of she-buffalo and dried. Next it is to be
put into a samputam made of two basins and heated
by means of Gajaputam ; the contents of the sam-
putam being taken out when the fire will be extin-
guished completely and the samputam cooled of itself.
The haritalam is then to be rubbed with goat’s milk,
made into a ball, and dried. It is next to be put into
a vessel, covered on all sides with powdered lime, the
remaining portion of the vessel being filled with the
ashes of palasha. The mouth of the vessel is to be
closed in such a way as not to let out any smoke.
The vessel is then to be subjected to heat, gradually
increasing, for 96 hours continuously, with the result
that the haritalam will be found, when taken out after
the apparatus gets cooled, to be as white as moon
and will emit no smoke, if subjected to further heat.
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How to use the harital-bhasma described above.
Qpe raicd ip weight of the iaoioerated haritalam,
described above, is to be tahea with did ladlasses for
the cure of all sorts of Iqnrosyi skin diseases, car>
bundes, fistula, etc. At the dme of taking this
haritalam, the patient should take bread prepared from
chanaka grams and shasthi rice, without the addition
of any salt.
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Twelfth process.
One karsha of purified haritalam with an equal
quantity of incinerated iron and a little of incinerated
gold and silver are to be mixed together and put into
a glass bottle, properly coated with mud and rag for
seven times. This bottle is to be put into a Baluka
Jantram and heated for 12 hours. The medicine is to
be taken out^ when cooled of itself.
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Tkirteentk process.
Purified haritalam is to be rubbed separately with
each of the following and made into a lump juices
of kushmanda, nimboo, gojihva, kulattha, chhikkani,
ardraka, dhatura, bhringaraja, dugdhika, sahadevi,
palasha, eranda roots, brahmadandi, swarna balli,
rasona, palandu, gop^a karkati, kakamachJ, milk of
bajri, and arka. The lump is then to he put inside a
vessel filled with the ashes of aswatha, and heated as
usual, for 96 hours. The haritalam, thus incinerated,
cures quickly all sorts of diseases, mid especially
leprosy, scrofula, hysteria, and urinary diseases, if the
patient lives twice a day on a good diet, prepared
without salt, pungents, and strong ingredients.
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TOl »pt g:?!
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>T5R fs’ twj grar^flsr' si^ii
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Fourteenth process.
Purified haritalam is to be rubbed for seven days
with the juice of drona puspi and put into a Vidya-
dhara Jantram, which is to be heated for 24 hours,
the contents being taken out when the apparatus gets
cooled by radiation. The substance attached to the
upper pot is then to be collected, rubbed for three days
with the same juice, and again heated in the aforesaid
way, for 24 hours continuously. The process is to be
irrins?R?|.i «i|p
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repeated over and over again until the essence of; the
haritalaoi becomes stable, which generally takes
place after seven days. On the eighth day, the hari-
talam is to be rubbed for one day with the milk of
arka, and heated for 24 hours. This processs is to be
performed for three times. The product, thus pre-
pared, cures cancer leprosy and ^welling of the body
due to vataractam, and syphilis. The dose in leprosy
is 2 ractis a day, whereas in syphilis only one racti
is to be taken with honey and powdered topchini,
J of a tola in weight.
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Fiftemth process.
Purified haritalam is to be kept inside the hollow
of a big human bone, the ends bdng closed by means
of the ashes of aswattha, palasha or punamava. The
bone is to be plastered all over, for several times, with
mud, etc. and dried each time. It is next to be heated
by means of a strong fire, causing the incineration of
the haritalam. The product becomes more efficacious,
if the haritalam, prior to its being incinerated, were
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rubbed with the juices of suitable herbs. The hari-
talam, thus incinerated, cures all sorts of diseases.
It leads the chemist to the attainment of his wished-
for object, i. e., fame in the practice of medicine.
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fn^itfwi^ atflt^' »ri^ i
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Liqmfaction of hariialam.
The belly of a big fish is to be cut out very care-
fully, cleansed of the entrails, and made into a sort of
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a bag which is to be filled with purified haritalam of a
superior quality, the borders of the bag being sewed
carefully by means of thread. The whole thing is
then to be kept into an earthen vessel, covered in
sudi a way as to let some air enter into it. The
vessel is to be kept securely at the top of a big tree
growing in a locality far away from human habita-
tion, so that the stench coming out of the fish in a
state of putrefaction may not prove a nuisance to any
one. Innumerable insects grow upon the putrefied
fish. The stronger among these insects devour the
weaker ones until a few very big ones survive.
These big ones are very beautiful and have the colour
of gold. These are to be taken out and kept sus-
pended, by means of a thread, inside a glass bottle,
do^ by a light cork. This botde is to be sunk
up to its neck into rice, boiled with milk and still
very hot, until the insects melt and collect into a gold-
coloured liquid. This liquid may be used in all sorts
of diseases, and serves as a very important factor
In the secret process of transformation of base metals
into gold.
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Test of incinerated haritalam.
Haritalam is considered to be properly incinerated,
if it does not emit any smoke when put upon fire ;
otherwise it is to be considered un-incinerated.
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Merits of incinerated haritaUm.
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Incinerated haritalam cures eighty different kinds
of diseases due to an abnormal excess of vayu (viz.|
paralysis, etc.), if taken in doses of half a gunja,
mixed with six ballas in weight of khanda (condensed
molasses).
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Haritalam may be used in asthma, bronchitis
phthisis, leprosy pittam, vata racta, ringworm, itches,
carbuncle, and diseases due to an excess of vayu.
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Auompanimeids of haritalam.
Indnerated haritalam is to be used with the juice of
amra haridra in impurity of the Mood ; with purified
aconite and jeera in hysteria ; with samudra phalam
in dropsy ; with the juice of devadali in bhagandara
and priyanga diseases (syphilis); with the de-
coction of manjista, etc. f in eighteen different kinds
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mt »mwigT ^iffen^i^ ^ I
lif ^
wwB iRVK> TO I-
wPW iRiqpiuimipt^' .
t Muajit^ MMebi, chakramuda, qiait^ haMdra,
amaiaki, basa, abatabar^ bala, nagaba^ jaiSlaitiuUHi^ ' k(^ilak8^
seeds, patda leaves, oduraoi, gudachi, and racta dta a da n a.
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I
of leprosy ; with triphala and sugar in jaundice ;
with powdered shunthi in rheumatism, with inci-
nerated gold in ractapittam ; with the juice of
tanduliyam in eight different kinds of fever. Such
accompaniments may be devised by the physician
himself in accordance with the particular requirements
of the case.
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Extraction of essence from karitalam,’^
First process.
Haritalam is to be rubbed with the decoction of
kulattha, tankanam, she-buffalo’s ghee, and honey and
put into a vessel, covered well with a basin containing
a few holes. The vessel is to be heated by fire
# ifhAtrmtiRipR gRatswa i «id
t This essence is no other than a sabstance containing mnch of
arsenic.
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increasing gradually. The holes in the basin being
stopped all this time by means of cow dung. After
three hours of heating the holes are to be opened, and
on a pale . smoke coming out of these holes, the
heating is to be put a stop to. When perfectly
cooled, the vessel is to be broken open, and the
essence of haritalam collected carefully.
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Second process.
One palam of haritalam is to be rubbed for one day
with the milk of arka and mixed with sixteen times
its weight of oil. It is then to be heated in an open
space for 21 hours. When cooled of itself, the
essence deposited at the bottom, should be taken out.
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Third process.
Haritalam is to be rubbed for two days with the
fur of a goat's’ tail, sulphur, and the dravana-varga
(see page 305, Vol I), and then put into a glass bottle,
which is to be coated all over with mud and rag, for
three times, and dried in the sun. The lower half of
this bottle is then to be put inside an earthen vessel
which is to be heated for 36 hours. "When cooled,
the pure essence of haritalam deposited at the neck
of the glass bottle is to be collected carefully.
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firair ^ n
dN+'itw'tmi
*iwn aiT<r^^a’ Rmm
Fourth process.
Two tolas of haritalam are to be lightly confined
within a white piece of strong cloth and made into a
bundle, which is to be coated all over with sulphur
(rubbed with a vegetable acid) for three times, and
dried each time. This bundle is to be thrown into
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I
12 tolas of melted copper, and the whole thing is
to be covered quickly with ashes. When cooled, soft
white essence of haritalam, adhering to the surface of
the copper, will have to be collected carefully. This
is the essence which is required in mercurial opera-
tions and medicines.
Fifth process.
If haritalam is incinerated by means of a Tirjak
patana Jantram (see page 253, vol I), a kind of white
^ essence is obtained. This is to be used in doses of
one sarshapa a day. It cures obstinate fevers and
gives rise to beauty, nutrition, and strength.
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S^A process.
Haritalam,. mixed with half its quantity of
laksha, raji, tila, shigru, tankanam, la^nam, and
molasses, all combined, is to be put into a crucible
provided with a hole at the bottom and heated by
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Patala Jantram, leading to the extraction of the
essence.
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S3I ^ »ito’ 5®^ ^ Jitips I
qtaiw5wl>tsi n
Sevenik process,
Haritalatn is to be powdered, and subjected to
bhavana with goat’s milk for three times. It is then
to be rubbed with the root of patha, made into a
lump, dried, and then heated by a Patala Jantram,
leading to the emission of its essence.
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isfirf^rnw H
Eighth process.
Haritalam, roasted with linseed oil, and contained
in a glass bottle, is to be kept inside an ^rtben
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vessel, almost filled' with rock salt. This is then to be
heated for six hours leading to the emission of a pure
essence of haritalam.
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♦talXii**!! fRd*t!!ft=isi«n i
d'fc<i.w3=i ^ Ssr’ ftraRir ^ ii
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q<h-rt i n> <in^: i
gs!^ g^ q%' qwigs g^q, II
**wd^iiHHinq Jitgsi^w^ fq^ii
gsnggfirii^gt qiqqgsMt *^i
era 3^0*4% sjM ff ag^ii
li iq eiqPi^dq ft* i ^^<i i
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Ninth process.
Two prasthas of saltpetre and one prastha of
haritalam are to be r ubbed together with cow’s urine
for three days. These are again to be rubbed with
one fourth their combined weight of tankanam, an
equal quantity of the juice of hasti karna palasha, and
tila oil, double in quantity of the tankanam. All
these are to be kept in a glass bottle, and heated
for 1.2 hours, and then, as soon as white and pale
smoke will be found to come out of the bottle, the
mouth of" the same will have to be stopped tightly
and the apparatus heated for 24 hours more. Then
the apparatus will have to be cooled, and the pure
essence of haritalam taken out of the bottle.
' . This essence will have to be boiled with about one
prastha of cow’s urine until the whole of it evaporates.
The essence is then to be rubbed with one thirtieth
pa|t of its weight of sulphur and a little of tankanam ;
and then heated by a strong heat which changes it
into a lump of a compound substance, absolutely free
from injurious matters. This compound, with eleven
times its weight of brass and a little of pure silver,
may be heated in a crucible with the result that the
whole thing turns into pure silver.
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Tenth process.
Haritalam emits its essence, if rubbed with seeds
of eranda and jayapala, and heated in a glass bottle,
by means of a Baluka Jan tram.
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Eleventh process.
Pure lime and one fourth its quantity of nava saram
are to be rubbed with water, double in quantity of
the lime, and to be boiled in that water, exactly in the
way salt is prepared by boiling salt water, so that
dirty matters found afloat on the surface is thrown
away over and over again. Excellent and purified
haritalam with an equal quantity of mercury, tan-
kanam, and half the quantity of tankanam of the
compound prepared from lime and navasara, are to be
rubbed together with the juices of kanya and shara-
punkha. All these are to be dried, put into a glass
bottle, and heated for 24 hours, resulting in the emis-
sion of essence from the haritalam.
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fsurosagi : 35: II
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maift 3 *!i« 3 T»i‘ 5 11
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imia^ q^ftaaggaw 1
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Twelfth process.
One palam of purified haritalam and an equal
quantity of tankanam are to be rubbed together with
each of the following, separately ; — ram’s milk, juice
of kushmanda, juice of kanya, juice of niraboo, milk
of bajra, that of arka, castor oil, honey, and ghee.
These are then to be made into small balls and
put into a glass bottle, previously wrapped up with
mud and rag for several times. The bottle is
then to be heated by means of a Baluka Jantram for
four days with the result that essence of haritalam,
appearing like diamond, will be found deposited at the
upper part of the bottle.
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fWs^rai ^ Pw^wR wS3i3!r
"nfirar aift»!! 5i%' ii
flifl-M^aM' 3cqti ?jm
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Thirteenth process.
Haritalam, rubbed with decoction of kulattha,
tankanam, ghee of she-buffalo, and honey, and sub-
jected to bhavaria with ghee is to be put into an earthen
vessel covered by means of an earthen basin contain-
ing a few holes, the joint being closed tightly. The
apparatus is then to be heated for 12 hours, after
which pale white smoke is expected to come out
through the holes. The fire is then to be extin-
guished, and when the apparatus gets cooled of iftelf,
the pure essence of haritalam is to be taken out.
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Use of essence of haritalam.
In vataracta of an obstinate type, essence of
haritalam is to be used in doses of one grain of rice
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fefratssrTO I
in weight, the diet being much of chanaka grams and
clarified butter. Fourteen days of use result in the
cure of the disease and the complexion of the skin
becoming very clear.
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aRHrf ’wt n
( I )
Removal of evil effects due to taking of impure
haritalam is effected by taking, for three days, jira,
mixed with sugar.
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( 2 )
The evil effects of taking haritalam are removed
by taking the juice of one of these three, viz., java-
sa, kushmanda, and rajahansa.
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Dietary.
One who takes haritalam should avoid altogether
salt, sours, pungents, and exposure to heat of hre and
sun. The man who is unable to avoid salt altogether
may take a little of rock salt. Sweets are beneficial
to the person who takes haritalam.
( i )
wrerrsf fessf vrafit wssism n
Transformation of base metals into gold by haritalam.
Haritalam is to be rubbed with the juice of
rudanti. Copper leaf, smeared with this haritalam,
turns into fine gold.
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( 2 )
The leaf of a metal consisting of i 6 parts of
silver and 12 parts of copper is to be smeared with
an amalgam made of haritalam, makshikam, hingula,
manas*shila, and mercury, all rubbed together for
three days with the juice of kakamachi, the weight
of each of these metals being f part of the leaf, which
is to be heated after it is so smeared. The product is
gold.
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( 3 )
Haritalam with an equal quantity of manas-shila
is to be rubbed with the juices of devadali and shiva
Ungi for one day each. Five palas of powdered
lead, tin, and mercury, each equal in quantity, are to
be rubbed with the amalgam of haritalam mid manas-
shila, described above, and with ghee and then sub-
jected to putam. The process of rubbing with the ,
amalgam and ghee and then of heating by putam is
to be performed sixty times resulting in the prepara-
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tion of a compound, which can transform loo times
its weight of tin into silver.
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TifvSjsti 3W irmrar n( ii
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Manas'shila ( recdgir),
Manas-shila is only a variety of haritalam ; hari-
talam is very yellow, whereas manas-shila is radish
in colour.
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Diff^erent kinds of manas-skila.
Manas-shila is of three different kinds, viz. shyama,
kanaviraka, and khanda. Shyama is reddish white
with a black tint and is heavy. Kanabiraka is bright
without whiteness, and has the appearance of copper.
Khanda is in the form of powder.. It is very red and
heavy. The last mentioned, viz. khanda, is the best
of all varieties and has plenty of essence.
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Properties of manas-skila.
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Manas-shila is an excellent rasayanam (i.e. a medi
cine which prevents and cures senility and physical
decay). It is bitter, pungent, producer of heat, des-
troyer of phlegm and air ; and has an ample essence.
It cures influences exerted by ghosts on human
system, poison, indigestion, itches, cough, and phthisis.
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Manas -shila is heavy, improver of complexion,
laxative, producer of heat in the system, destroyer of
fat, pungent and bitter in taste, soothing, and curer of
poison, asthma, bronchitis, evil influences of ghosts,
and impurities of the blood.
Bvil ej^ecis of taking manas shila^ not properly
purified.
Manas-shila, not properly purified, g^ves rise to
stone disease, stricture, gleet, loss of appetite, and
constipation. If properly purified, it cures all sorts
of diseases.
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Purification of manas-shila.
First process.
Manas-shila is purified, if subjected to bhavana for
seven times, with the juice of agasta leaves, or of
ginger.
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Second process.
Manas-shila is purified and, as sUch, may be used
in all sorts of diseases, if boiled in a Dola Jantram
with the juices of jayanti, bhringaraja, and red
agastya, for three hours, and with goat’s urine for
another three hours, and then washed with aranala.
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Third process.
Manas-shila is purified, if it is boiled in a Dola
Jantram with the juices of bhringaraja, agastya,
jayanti, and ardraka.
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Fourth process.
Manas-shila is purified, if it is boiled with goat’s
urine for three days, by means of a Dola Jantram, and
then subjected to bhavana for seven times with goat’s
bUe.
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Fifth process.
Manas-shila is purified, if it is subjected to
bhavana for seven times with lime water.
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Sixth process.
Manas-shila is purified, if subjected to bhavana
for seven times with the juice of baka leaves or of
ginger.
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Extraction of essence of manas-shila.
Manas-shila discharges its essence, if heated
strongly by means of a bellows, after having been
rubbed with one eighth its weight of oxidised iron,
gurh, guggulu, and ghee.
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Manas-shila, rubbed with kshara and amla, and
mixed with the essence of earthworm, tankanam,
madana fruit, and juice of karaballi leaves, all rubbed
together, is to be put into a crucible, and heated by
means of charcoal, given twice only. This results in
the extraction of essence from manas-shila.
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Antidotes to the bad effects of taking impure
manas-shila.
Manas-shila fails to produce any bad effect in one
who takes cow’s milk with honey, for three days.
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Anjana {stibnite, sulphide of lead^ and other things,
mainly used as collyrium).
Anjana is of five different kinds, viz, (i) sauviran-
jana, (2) nilanjana, (3) rasanjana. (4) srotonjana, (5)
kulatl;lianjana, and (6) puspanjana. All of them are
efficacious in eye diseases.
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(/) Saimranjanam.
This can be obtained in the beds of river, Suvira.
It has the colour of smoke, is cool, and is efficacious in
hemorrhage, poison, hiccough, eye disease, and boils.
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(i) Nilanjanam.
It is blue, heavy, soothing, beneficial to eye-sight,
remover of the three doshas, destroyer of senile
decay, killer of gold, and has the property of soften-
ing the metals.
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(j) Rasanjanam.
Rasanjanam is of three different kinds, of which the
first is obtained in nature in the form of stone, where-
as the second and the third are prepared artificially.
{ci) The first kind of rasanjana is obtained from
rocks in Turkey, It is yellowish in colour, mid con-
tains mercury as one of its constituents. It is pun-
gent and bitter in taste, and pacifies phlegm, poison,
carbuncles, and eye diseases. It produces heat in the
system, prevents and cures senile decay, and cures
obesity.
(b) The second kind of rasanjanam is an exuda-
tion or concentrated decoction of yellow sandal. It
is yOllowish in colour. It cures diseases pertaining to
the mouth, asthma, hiccough, and an excess of vayu,
pitta, and blood.
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(cj The third kind of rasanjana is prepared by
boiling daru haridra with an equal quantity of milk
and condensing the mixture into one fourth its original
quantity. This rasanjanam is also very efficacious
in eye diseases.
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y) Srotomanaw.
It is cool, soothing, astringent, and sweet. It is
efficacious in obesity, eye-diseases, hiccough, poison,
nausea, excess of phlegm and animal heat, and impu-
rities of the blood. It has the appearance of the top
of a mound of earth raised by white ants ; when
broken into pieces, its inner surfaces appear to have
the colom of a blue lotus, but if rubbed, they turn
red as red ochre.
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(5) Kulattkanjamm.
This is black in colour, astringent, pungent, cool,
and is efficacious in eye -diseases, poison, boils, itches,
and carbuncle. It also cures a kind of leprosy, called
kakanam, and jaundice at a very advanced stage.
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(d) Pushpanjanam.
It is white, soothing, and cool. It cures all sorts
of eye-diseases, hic-cough of a very virulent type, and
fever due to poison.
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Purification of anjanas.
All the anjanas are purified, if subjected to
bhavana with the juice of bhringaraja. Rasanjana
alone is also purified, if subjected to bhavana with
the juice of suryavarta, eta t
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Second process,
Rasanjana is dissolved with a very hot water,
filtered through a piece of cloth, and dried in the sun.
Thus purified, it cures diseases, otherwise not.
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Third process.
Ail the anjanas are purified, if they are powdered,
subjected to bhavana with lime juice, and dried for
one day in the sun. The following are also purified
in the same way : — gairika, kasisa, tankana, varatika
(cowri shells), shankha, tubari, and kankustha.
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Extraction of essence from anjanas.
Essence of anjanas is to be extracted in the same
way as that of manas-shila. The essence of sroton-
jana may also be obtained in the same way as of
rajavarta.
Solidification of mercury by means of srotonfana.
Srotonjana, subjected to bhavana for several times
with the juice of cowdung, cow’s urine, ghee, honey,
and tallow solidifies mercury very soon.
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Kankustham ( an ore containing tin.)
It is produced at the foot of the Himalayas and
is of three different kinds, viz. (i) nalika, (2) white,
and (3) renuka. The first is yellow-coloured, heavy,
soothing, and the best of all varieties. The second,
i. e. the white one is inferior to the first, and has very
little essence in it. The third variety, viz. renuka, is
blackish yellow, light, devoid of essence, and is not
suitable for medicinal purposes. Kankustham is an
ore containing tin.
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Kankustha is bitter, pimgenl, producer of hot effect
on the system, and highly purgative. It is efficacious
in tarbuncle, udavarta, colic, gulma, enlargement of
the spleen, piles, and fistula. It cures rheumatism
and causes purgation very quickly. It also effects a
quick cure of an exceptionally enlarged spleen and of
dropsy.
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First process.
Kankustha is purified, if subjected to bhavana for
three times with the decoction of shunthi.
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Second process.
All the uparasas (including kankustham) are
purifiedj if subjected to bhavana for several times with
ksharas, amlas, and with the juice of any one of the
following :-^suryavarta, kadali, bandhya karkotaki,
koshataki, devadali, shigru, vajra kanda (wild shura-
nam), jala pippali, and kakamachi. Essence is dis-
charged by the uparasas (of course, those which have
got them), if heated after they have been purified in
that way.
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Kankustham is full of essence. It is therefore not
necessary to extract an essence from it.
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How to take kankustham.
If taken in doses of only one java (barley grain) a
day, mbced with some thing which has the property of
hardening the stools, kankustham removes all the
mucus from the system by purgation. If taken with
betel leaf, it causes death by over-purgation. To undo
the evil effects of kankustham, it is necessary to drink
over and over again the decoction of the root of a
barbura (acacia) tree, mixed with an equal quantity
of jeera and tankana.
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Kampilla.
Kampilla is like brick dust, glazy, and highly
purgative. It grows in the locality of saurastra
(Surat). It is efficacious in an excess of pittam, car-
buncles and boils, swelling of the belly with wind,
constipation, excess of phlegm, udara, worms, gulma,
piles, fistula, fever, and colic, and all other diseases
curable by purgation.
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Pitfificaiion of sadharam ufarasas.
i^^e.from kumpiUa to bhunagd).
The sadharana tiparasas, that is uparasas belong-
ing to group III (kanapilla to bhunaga) are purified,
if subjected to bhavana with the juices of matulunga
and ardraka for three times.
All sorts of essences of ores and metals are puri-
fied, and combine with one another, if heated with the
shuddhi varga (or shodhania gana,see Vol. I, page 306.
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Kampilla cures boils, skin diseases, and even car-
buncles on the back bone, if it is mixed with cow’s
ghee and applied as an ointment. In case of a car-
buncle on the back bone, it is necessary, first of all
to apply on it, for one day, a paste of bimbi leaves,
slightly heated, and then to apply the ointment
prepared by mixing powdered kampilla with cow’s
ghee (or, preferably, goat’s ghee). In the absence
of ghee, cocoanut oil may be used for this purpose.
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Gauripashana (Arsenic stone).
Gauripashana is of three kinds, viz, red, yellow,
and white. They are mentioned here in order of
their merit. It is no other than the essence of hari-
talam. Gauripashana is also of two kinds, viz. mineral
and that which is obtained from haritalam. Haritalam,
rubbed with castor oil and lime juice, and heated by
means of a Baluka Jantram, discharges red gauri*
pzishana, as its essence.
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Purijication of arsenic stone.
Arsenic stone is purified, if it is confined inside a
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karaballi fruit and boiled for one hour by means of a
Dola Jantram,
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Second process.
Since gauripashana is an essence of haritalam,
it is also to be pprified in the same way as haritalam.
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Extraction of essence from gamipaskana.
Essence Of gauripashana is to be extracted in
the same way as that of haritala. This essence is
pure white, soothing, and destroyer of the three
doshas, It is used in the solidification of mercury
and increases the potency of the same.
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Navasara ( sal ammonia^.
Navasara or chulika salt is a kshara which is
sometimes found to grow in karira and pilu wood,
when in a state of decomposition. It is the same pale
saltish and light thing which is sometimes found de-
posited on burnt bricks. The stool of man, camel,
hog, etc. is to be dissolved with water and filtered
through a piece of cloth for several times and then
dried up by means of heat, the product being navasara.
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Pr(^erties of navasara.
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It helps the exhaustion of mercury and the melt-
ing of metals, increases appetite, cures gulma, en-
largement of the spleen, and dryness of the mouth.
It helps the digestion in the s'tomach of such heavy
food as meat, etc. It is one of the constituents of
what is called a vida and is a pacifier of the three
doshas.
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Navasara is saltish. It expedites the discharge
from the system of things (such as blood, kapha,
pittam, etc.) which have already commenced to come
out. It is cool, and is efficacious in dropsy, heart
disease, liver complaints, fever, enlargement of the
head disease, tuthpur, diseases pertaining to
the female breast, ractapittam, cough, fracture of
bones and in diseases pertaining to the v^na.
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Kapardaka (cowrz or marine shells).
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The cowrie shell which is yellowish in colour,
having a knot and circle on the back, is known by the
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name of charachara. Cowries of this type only may
be used in medicines. Of these, the one which is
niska ( i. f of a tola ) in weight is the best, that
which is one niska ( -^ of a tola ) in weight is of
moderate quality, and that which is f of a niska (/. s.
^ of a tola ) in weight is inferior in quality. That
which is less than of a tola in weight is a male
cowrie, is useless for the purpose of medicines, and
causes an excess of pittam, if used in medicines.
Althoi^h found benehcial in some cases, all such
cowries give rise to several evil effects, and should
therefore be avoided for medicinal purposes.
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Properties of cowry or marine shell.
It cures all sorts of colic, including that which
is felt just at the time of digestion of food. It also
cures chronic diarrhoea and phthisis. It is pungent,
hot, increasing the power of digestion, nutritive,
beneficial to the eye, and pacifier of an excess of
vayu and kapha (phlegm). It is one of the best of
the materials constituting what is called a vida,
referred to in the exhaustion of mercury. The cowries
which do not conform to the description given above
are male cowries— they are not easily digested and
give rise to an increase of phlegm and animal heat.
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Purification of kapardi {ccmri).
Kapardi or cowri is purified, if boiled with kanji
for three hours.
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Incimraiion of kapardi fowri^
Fifst process.
Cowrie is reduced to ashes, if placed upon charcoal
fire until it bursts. When cooled of itself, it may be
reduced to powder and used in all things.
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Second process.
Kapardi is undoubtedly reduced to ashes, if
subjected to putam by means of a strong fire. When
cooled of itself, it is to be reduced to powder and
used as required.
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Third process,
A big and wide-^mouthed earthen pot is to be
placed in a pit, made in a clean and level soil. About
half of this pot is to be filled with paddy husks into
which is to be j^aced the closed crucible or samputam
containing cowries. Upon this crucible or samputam
is to be made a fire made of cowdung cakes, which
will effect the incineration of the cowries. The appa-
ratus referred to here is called the Panika Jantram,
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Shankha {conch shell).
Shankha is of two kinds, viz, the dakshinavarta
i. e.f that which has got its involution from left to
right, and the vamavarta t,e. that which has got it in
an opposite direction. None but the virtuous can
procure the former. The latter does not Indicate
good fcntune bi the owner^ The home-stead which
Contains a conch of the former descdptlon is (he
abode of the goddess of fortune, Such a shell is a
destroyer of an abnormal excess of the three
d<»has. It is pure and a wealth in Itself. A conch
shell, which is devoid of dirts, is moon«white in colour,
and if duly purified, is commendable for medicinal
purposes ; odierwtse not.
PurificccHon of shankha,
Shankha is purified, if boiled in a Dola Jantram
with amlas, mixed with kanji.
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IncinercUion of shankha.
One palam of shankha, killed by being heated in
a blind cruciUe is to be rubbed by means of a rod
with half a masha of tankanam, and then used in
medicines.
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Ptoperties of skankha.
Shankha cures all sorts of diseases, especially
chronic diarrhoea, colic pain, acidity with biliousness,
swelling of the belly with vrind, spermatorrhoea, and
heart disease. It also increases the power of digestion
of food. It is a kshara, and has a cooling effect on
the system. It removes looseness of stool even in
chronic diarrhoea. It cures white blot in the eye, is
a tonic, and cures pimples in the face of youngmen.
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Bahni jara or agnijarn.
Agnijara is the uterine excreta of agninakra, (a
kind of shark ) thrown upon the beach by sea waves
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and dried up by the sun. Agnijara is the pacifier of
the three doshas. It cures tetanus and other diseases
due to an excess of vayu. It increases the potency
of mercury and the power of digestion. It is already
purified by contact with the kshara contained in sea
water, and does not therefore require any further
purification.
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Girisinduram {Mineral red vermilion).
This is found in small quantities inside rocks in
big mountains. It is dry and red. This is a compound
of lead and other things. It has all the properties
possessed by lead ; but it possesses other qualities
also on account of its containing a little of mercury
and sulphur.
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Properties of girisinduram.
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It is a pacifier of the three doshas, laxative, good
solidifier of mercury, and is beneficial to eye-sight. It
makes the body as strong as iron.
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Both kinds of red vermilion (viz, girisinduram
which is a nattiral product, and artificial red vermilion
manufactured in the laboratory. For the process of
preparing the latter, see under lead), are efficacious
in erysipelas, leprosy, itches, and poison. They help
the joining of broken limbs, are disinfectants, and
heal boils and carbuncles.
Ped vermilion fit for use.
Red vermilion is considered pure, and fit for use in
medicines, if it is Well-coloured, able to stand the heat
of fire, fine, soothing, transparent, heavy, soft, and
is obtained from a gold mine.
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Purification of red vermilion.
First process.
The red vermilion which is obteuoed from a gold
mine and is pure in itself need not be purified. The
one which is not of this description should be purified
by being subjected to bhavana with milk and sour
vegetable juice.
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Second process.
Red vermilion is purified, if it is rubbed with
lemon juice, dried in the sun, and then subjected to
bhavana with rice water.
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Varieties of hingula.
Hingula is of three different kinds, viz, 0) char-
mara, (2) shuka tundaka, and (3) hansa pada. Of
these, the third is better than the second, and the
second is better than the first. Charmara has the colour
of a parrot ; shuka tundaka is yellowish ; whereas
hansapaka is as red as japa flower and coral, with
white streaks here and there.
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Properties of hinguta,
Hingula is a destroyer of all the three doshas (?>.
abnormal excess of vayu, pittam, and kapha). It
increases the power of digesting food, and is an
excellent medicine for the cure and prevention of
senile decay. It cures all sorts of diseases ( if used
with suitable accompaniments) ; is nutritive, and is
very useful for the purpose of incineration of metals.
Especially does it cure spermatorrhoea and leprosy. It
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increases appetite, strength, memory, and power of
digestion. Mercury, extracted' from hingula, is as
good as that which has swallowed some sulphur. (For
the process of absorption of sulphur by mercury, see
vol. 1.)
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FiVj/ process.
Hingula is purified, if subjected to bhavana for
seven times with the juiee of ginger or lakucha.
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Second process.
Hingula is purified, if it is rubbed for seven times
with the juice of the amlavarga and buffaloe’s milk,
and dried each time it is so rubbed.
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Third process,
Hingula is purified, if it is subjected to bhavana
for seven times with ram’s milk and the juice of the
amla varga.
Fourth process,
Hingula is purified,^ if it is boiled in a Dola
Jantram with lime juice, and then subjected to
bhavana for seven times with goat’s urine.
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Hingula is purified, if it is boiled for three days
in a Dola Jantram with the juice of jayanti leaves, or
in urine, or in kanji, or in lemon juice.
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Preparations of Hingula,
First profess.
Hingula is to be broken into pieces of the size of
rhana gram and kept in a pot made of lead or iron.
It is then to be heated steadily. When heated; it is
to be saturated with ^tch of the liquids undermen-
tioned, the quantity of the latter being equal to the
hingula itself. When one of the liquids gets dried up,
the hingula is to be saturated with the liquid next
mentioned, and so on. The juice or liquids are ; —
ram’s milk for ten times, juice of kshirika for ten
times, juice of arka for ten times, decoction of the
dipta varga for ten times, juice of virekarka (pilu)
for five times, dugdha varga (see page 303, vol 1), for
five times.
The hingula is then to be subjected to bhavana
with all the liquids mentioned above, one by one, in
order of their merit.
This hingula is called the “Shatarka darada", or
the hingula which has been prepared with one
hundred liquids. This cures various diseases and is'
a “jogabahi’* or a medicine which enhances the pro-
perties of a thing with which it is taken.
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Second process.
Two palas of purified hingula are to be confined
in a piece of cloth, four-folded. Six palas of the root
of kandari (gopala karkati or palandu ?) are to be
rubbed well and made into a paste, with which is to
be coated the surface of the bun'die containing
hingula, the whole thing being made into a ball which
is to be wrapped up well with eranda leaves and then
coated very cairefully with mud, and dried. This ball
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Is to be heated by putam with a fire made of ten
pieces of cowdung cakes. This is to be done for
one hundred and one times. The medicine, thus
prepared, is equal in potency to rasa-sinduram, pre-
pared carefully. Dose, one racti a day to be taken
with an equal quantity of powdered lavanga.
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TO II
TMrd process.
Purified hingula is to be wrapped up by means of
a fine piece of cloth, coated all over with a paste
made of onion, and made into a ball, which is to -be
covered with eranda leaves and then with mud and
rags. The ball is then to be dried and heated by a
putam by means of fire made of ten pieces of cow-
dung cakes. The process is to be performed
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one
hundred times. It is again to be performed hundred
times with each of the following, used as paste, instead
of onion ; — egg fruit, fruit of indra baruni, and ripe
amla vetasa fruit, Hingula is thus subjected to putam
for four hundred times, i. e., one hundred times with
each of the following : — onion, egg fruit, indra baruni,
and amla vetasa. The medicine, thus prepared, is to
be taken with betel leaf in doses of one racti a day.
Thus used, it cures asthma, cough, fever, increases
retentive and faculties, beauty, memory, and procreative
energy. It also has the power to prevent and cure
senility.
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Preparation of omnabar at laboratory.
Hingula is of two kinds, viz, (i) that which is
obtained in mines and (2) that which is prepared at
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laboratory by the combination of mercury and
sulphur. The process of preparing chinnabar at
laboratory is as follows : — One part of mercury
(which need not be purified) and four parts of sulphur
are to be placed in an iron pot, and heated for some
time. The amalgam is then to be broken into pieces
and put into a glass bottle, previously coated all
round with mud and rag one anguli deep, and dried
in shade. The bottle is to be heated by means of a
Baluka Jan tram for one day with mild heat It is
then to be heated for five days continuously by means
of a fire increasing gradually in intensity at a uniform
rate. The heating is then to be discontinued and the
contents of die glass bottle taken out on the seventh
day. The product wih he found to be hingula.
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JSvil effects of impure hingula,
Hingula, not properly purified, gives rise to
leprosy, impotency, fatigue, giddiness, and derange-
ment of the brain. The chemist physician should,
therefore, purify it.
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Their remedies.
The evil effects of taking hingula, not properly
purified, may be remedied in the same way as pres-
cribed in the case of mercury.
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Essence of hingula.
Hingula discharges its essence in the shape of
mercury, if subjected to sublimation, the sublimated
mercury being allowed to be condensed in a water
trough forming a part of the Tirjak Patana Jantram.
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Mriddara'Shringakam. (an ore of lead).
It is found by the side of the Arvuda hill near
about Gurjara (Gujrat). It is yellow in colour. It has
lead for its essence. It is heavy, pacifier of phlegm
andcurer of syphilis. It helps the sol^ification of
mercury and is a good dyer of hair.
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Purification of Mriddara shringakant.
The process is the same as in katnpilla.
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Bhmc^ {Pmdkmotnilii
Earth worms are of four different kinds, according
to the nature of the mines, in the neighbourhood of
which they grow, viz, (i) those which grow near gold
mines, (2) those which grow near silver mines, (3)
those which grow near iron mines, and (4) those which
grow near copper mines. The fit«t three are rare.
The fourth is easier to procure, and is more efficacious
than the other varieties. Earth worms growing in
ordinary soil are of very little wmth, aund have got a
very little essence.
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Purification oj earthworms.
Rasaka, haritala, manas-shila, essence of tuttham,
and earth worms, etc. are purified by being boiled with
ksharas, and amlas, for one day only.
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Extraction of essence from earthworm.
First process.
Essence can be obtained from earth worms, if they
are boiled with milk, rubbed with the soil raised by
these worms or with tankanam, and then heated.
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Second process.
Earth worms growing in sharat (/. e. the two
months next after the rainy season) are to be mixed
with molasses, honey, ghee, tankana, tuber of the
root of a banana plant, and tuber of shurana. All
these are to be rubbed into a ball, dried, and
then heated until essence is discharged. This essence
is to be taken out of the dirty substance.
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Third process.
(Extraction of essence front copper earth-worms).
Earth-worms growing in the proximity of copper
mines are to be rubbed with molasses, guggula, lac,
wool, small fish, oil cakes, and borax, and made into
a baU, which is to be dried and heated, resulting in
the disdiarge of a co|^er-like essence. An essence
can ^mBarly be obtained from pea-cock’s feathers.
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Properties of the esmice of earth-worms.
Essence of earth-worms is cool. It cures all sorts of
carbuncles and leprosy. A draught of water touched
by this essence has the property of pacifying all sorts of
poisons, organic or inorganic. It imparts to mercury
the property of standing the heat of fire. Such are
also the properties of the essence of peacock’s
feathm's.
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W^«I giJIT ?T|W«fT frai: H
CHAPTER VI.
Medals.
There are seven metals, viz. gold, silver, copper,
iron, zinc, tin, and lead. The mixed metals are three
in number, viz. brass, bell-metal, and vartaka. They
are called dhatus (from dha=to sustain), simply
because they prevent senility and thinness, and cure
fever and other diseases, and thus sustain the system.
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Suvama {Gold),
Gold is red when melted, but white when cut into
twa It leaves a saffron-like tint, when rubbed upon
a touch stone. The gold which is devoid of impurities,
soothing, soft, and heavy is commendable. That
which is white, hard, coarse, dis-coloured, full of im-
purities, consistis of layers turns black when melted
and cut into two, leaves a white impression on a
touch stone, is light aund brittle, is to be avoided.
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Varitus of gold.
Gold is of two kinds, viz, that which is trans*
formed from base metals, through the agency, mainly,
of mercury, especially prefmred, and that which is
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obtained from mines. The first variety is full of
sixteen colours, whereas the second has combined in
itself only fourteen colours. The first is the purest,
best, and has the property of preventing and curing
senility, whereas the latter has the property of curing
all the diseases, if duly purified, incinerated, and
applied as medicine for internal use with suitable
accompaniments.
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Properties of gold,
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Gold is soothing, pure, nutritive, curer of poison,
phthisis, insanity, and other diseases. It increases
memory, intelligence, retentive faculties, appetite, and
power of digestion of food. It pacifies all the three
doshas and is sweet in taste, after it is digested in
the stomach.
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II
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Gold is cool, nutritive, strengthening, heavy, curer
and preventer of senility, swefet, bitter, and astringent
in taste. It turns sweet and slippery after it is digested
in the stomach. It is pure, nutritive, beneficial to
eye sight, increaser of the retentive faculties, memory
and consciousness, beneficial to the heart, and in-
creaser of longevity. It stabilises beauty, and purity
of speech. It cures two kinds of poison (/. e. natural
and artificial)^ phthbis, and insanity.
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Gold (and silver also, to a certain extent) in-
creases vitality, fortune, beauty, intelligence, and
memory. It destroys all sorts of diseases, pacifies
the evil influences exerted on human beings by
ghos^, is an aphrodisiac, and gives rise to happiness
and nutrition. It cures diseases, prevents senility,
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removes loss of memory and consciousness. It also
removes thinness, develops the mind, and increases
semen.
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Evil ej^ects of taking gold^ not properly purified ^
and killed {incinerated).
Gold, not properly purified and incinerated, des-
troys, if taken internally, health, semen, and strength,
and gives rise to various diseases. It should, there-
fore, be stript of alloy, purified, and killed,
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Purificatwn of gold, #
First process.
Pure miaeral gold which has got only 14 colours,
becomes absolutely pure and assumes 16 colours, if it
is mixed with pansu lavana (or salt prepared from
ashes of plantain, etc.), and heated over charcoal fire
for one and half hour.
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Second process.
Leaves of gold, silver, brass, copper, and iron
are purified, if they are heated over fire and immersed,
while still hot, into oil, butter milk, milk, kanji, and
decoction of kulattha, for seven times each, separately.
gpWT raw: I
« The term **purifi;caticm’’ of a metal, as used in this book,
does not mean to purify it physically, but to purify it medicinally,
No metal which is physically impure should be used in medicines,
mccept, of course, the mixed metals.
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Third process. ■
All sorts of metals are purified, if they are heated
for seven times, and immersed each time in the juice
of the root of a banana plant.
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Fourth process.
Gold is purified, if subjected to putam with burnt
mud and salt, after having been previously subjected
to bhavana for five times with mud and juice of
matulunga.
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Fifth process.
The pancha mrittika (z. e. brick, red ochre, salt
derived from ashes, soil raised by white ants, and
ashes, see page 302, Vol I) are ^to be rubbed with
lime juice and aranala and made into a paste with
which is to be coated the surfaces of gold leaves
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which are next to be subjected to putam after three
days. Gold is thus purified.
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Sixth process.
Gold is purified, if heated, as in the preceding
process, after having been coated with the pancha
mrittifca, previously subjected to bhavana for three
days with the juice of matulunga, rock salt, and
burnt mud.
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Seventh process.
Pure gold is to be melted in fire and immersed
in the juice of kanchanara. The process is to be
performed thrice, resulting in the (medicinal) purifica-
tion of the gold.
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Incineration of gold,
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Importance of mercury in the killing of 'outcds.
The killing of a metal with the help of incinerated
mercury is the best. That with the help of vegetable
drugs is the next in efficacy ; that with the help of
sulphur, etc, is still less efficacious ; whereas that
with the help of a metal having antagonistic properties
is positively injurious.
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(2)
Worms grow in the abdomen of the man who takes
metals killed without the hdp of mercury.
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0)
The {^ysidmis who are experts in d%e perlorasmtce
of processes expteined by Si^biha I.i^:^fnunrifa
have no doubt diat the adbes of metals t^taioing
mercury are the beat that can be {H'<q}ared. f
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I See tbe fourth proceM.
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Fir&t process.
Leaves of gold, so thin as to be pierced through
bjr acacia thorns, are to he smeared with a paste
made of incinerated mercury, rubbed with the juice
of matulunga, and then subjected to putam. The
process, performed for ten times, will lead to the
incineration of the gold,
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Second process.
Gold is to be melted over fire and mixed with
an equal quantity of incinerated mercury. The
amalgam, thus prepared, is then to be powdered,
mbbed with the juice of matulunga and cinnabar, and
subjected to putam' Twelve such putams will
resulte in the redndiion of the gold to ashes of the
colour of saflfron,
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Third process.
Gold leaves are reduced to ashes, if they are
smeared with one-fourth their weight of incinerated
mercury, rubbed with a non-mineral acid and subjected
to putam for eight times.
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?ftra 5 fig3R!!:^ii
fil|I =5 mfeR fl^l
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Fourth process.
All the metals may be reduced to ashes in the
following way : — One part of mercury and two parts
of sulphur are to be rubbed into kajjvali ( black
powder ), and then mixed with three parts of the
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titetal (meant to be reduced to ashes) and rubbed for
«ix hours mth the juice of kanya. The whole thing
is then to be made into a ball, wraf^ed up with eranda
leaves, in a copper pot, and exposed to the sun
for half an hour till the bsdl grows hot. It is
then to be kept inside a heap ric« for three days,
covered with an earthen basin. On die fcmith day,
the lump is to be powdered very fine, and sifted
throi^h a piece of cloth. This powder will be found
to be so light as to fiuat on the surface of water.
Gold and the six other metals become very
<»dous, if killed in a Baluka Jantram, mixed with
nwarcury and* sulphur. The metal gains in efficacy,
if indnerat^ with two to six times its weight of
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Fifth process.
Mercury with twice its weight of sulphur is to be
rubbed tc^ether with a vegetable acid and made into
a black powder which again is to be rubbed in the
same manner with thin gold leaves, equal in quantity
to the mercury and sulphur combined, and made into
a lump. The whole thing is then to be covered with
rock salt, put below and upon it, and confined within a
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samputam, which is to be heated for 24 hours resulting
in the incineration of the gold, which may now be
used for ail purposes.
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Sixih process.
Purified gold leaves are to be smeared again and
again with mercury and sulphur (made into a black
powder and saturated with a sour vegetable juice).
They are then to be immersed in the juice of kancha-
nara, langali, and jwala-mukhi, and confined within a
samputam which is then to be subjected to heat
resulting in the incineration of the gold.
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Seventh process.
Purified mercury and an equal quality of thin
gold leaves, cut into pieces, are to be rubbed together
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and made into a lumpi which is to be confined in a
samputam with double its quantity of sulphur, put on
all rides of the lump. The samputam is then to be
subjected to heat by fire made of 30 pieces of cow~
dtu^ faa& found dried in the pasturage. The proc^
is to be performed for 14 times leading to the in-
dneration of the gold.
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Eighth pmmss.
G<dd leaves are to be rubbed adrii purifi^ mercury
and nmdb into a ball which is to be covered on all
rides with powdered lead and then subjected to
putam which causes the incineration.
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Ninth process.
Gold leaves, smeared with mercury or ashes of
mercury, are to be rubbed for one day' with the juice-
of kanchana and an equal quantity of hingu, hingula,
sindura, and manas-shila, and made into a ball whidt'
is to be kept at the bottom of a vessel, the remaining
parts of which are to be filled with ashes. The vessel
is then to be subjected to putam for two times and
opened only when cooled of itself. If, on opening
the vessel, a part of the ball is found to be still un-
incinerated, it is again to be subjected to putsun fmr
two times. In this way gold is reduced to ashes
wych can not be restored to the original state.
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In the foregoing process for incineration of gold,,
each of langali, jwalamukhi, and manas-filiila may be-
used as a substitute for kanchana.
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Tenth process.
Gold and an equal quantity of mercury are to be-
rubbed together and made into a lump, wtadb k to be
heated by fire causing the disappearance of tlws -
mercury from the lump. The gold is then to be-
mixed with an equal quantity of copper and sul^er^ed
to putam leading to the ractneraticm of the gold.
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Eieomtk process.
Thin leaves of gold are to be smesaed ^ with ^n*
•ctnerated lead rubb»i iHth lemon juice and iMil^ected
to pmam. This process is to be 'performed for three
dmau The thus prepaied, are to be deprived
id dm they are af^in nfobed with hingula and
snfa^^eted to pittam for three times.
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Twlftk ^rocgss.
G<Ad leaves, smeared with sauvtra anjanam, pre-
viotufy rulfoed with the juice (d bhringaraja, are
reduced to adiea^ M sulyected to Gaja potam.
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Thirttmtk process.
One tola of gold and one masha (^th of a
of purified lead are to be melted and rolled together
with some sour vegetable juice and then powdered.
This powder, with an equal quantity of sulphur and
swarna makshika, are to be rubbed for three hours
with a sour vegetable juice, and subjected to lagfau
putam for ten times, fresh quantity of sulphur being
used every time. Gold is incinerated in this way.
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Fourteenth prouss.
Powdered manas*shila and red vermilion are to be
subjected to bhavana with an equal quantity of the
milk of arka. This powder is to be thrown into an
equal quantity of melted gold which is to be heated
again in such a way as to let the powder disappear
altogether. If the i^ocess is repeated for three times,
the gold will be incinerated.
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Fifteenth process.
Leaves of gold are incinerated very soon, if
smeared with powdered makshika and lead, rubbed
together with the milk of arka.
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• Sixteenth process.
Gold leaves, cut into pieces, with half their
weight of mercury are to be rubbed together and
made into a lump, which is reduced to ashes, if sub-
jected to putam after having been confined iu a sam-
putam with powdered lead put |jd;pw and upon the
lump.
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Seventeenth process.
Gold is incinerated, if smeared with powdered
lead and manas-shila, nibbed with the milk of bajri,
and then subjected to putam.
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Eighteenth process.
Gold leaves are to be smeared with incinerated
lead rubbed with the milk of snuhi or some sour
vagetable juice, and then heated by Gajaputam. It is
then to be smeared with one eighth its quantity of
earth-worms rubbed with some sour vagetable juice,
and again subjected to heat by Gajaputam. Perfor-
mance of this process for eight times will result In the
incineration of the gold leaves.
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Nineteenth process.
Gold leaves are to be smeared with purified
mercury, an equal quantity of sulphur, and the same
quantity of makshika, all rubbed with a strong mm-
metallic acid. They are then to be subjected to heat
by Gajaputam. Eight such putams will cause the
incineration of the leaves.
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Twmtuik process.
Gold leaves with double their quantity of mercury
are to be rubbed together for three hinirs with a sour
vegetable juice. Swarna makshikmn, equsil in quantity
to gold, is to be simUsu-ly rubbed. Half the
quantity of this is to be put at the bottom of the
crucible. Upon this is to be placed the gold leaves
rubbed with mercury, upon which is to be kept the
remaining half of the swarna*makshikam. Next is to
be put powdered sulphur, equal in quantity to the
gold. The crucible is then to be closed and heated
steadily for some time. Jt is then to be broken open
and a fresh quantity of sulphur of the same weight,
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as before, is again to be pu^ tund the crucible closed
and heated as before. Sulphur is thus to be put for
six times in all.
Five parts of these ashes and one part each of
tankanam and white glass are to be rubbed with
honey and ghee and made into a lump. This is to be
confined within a samputam with one part of dhany*
abhraka put below and upon the lump. The cruciUe
is then to be closed and heated for two ghatis with
the result that the ashes of gold attain a state of
incineration in which it is physically imposaible to
restcH’e them to thdr oitgtnal state (/. s. the state
of gold).
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ijt la gsf: iw’ irait wrai git ii
Tmnfy-jSrsi ptmess.
Gold leaves are to be smeared widi the juice dT
aragbadha, bhallataka, ami tankana, aB rul^ted
together, and then subjectmi to GaJapi;Uam. The
{H-ocess is to be performed fOT seven times to
the incineration of the gold leaves.
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AccompaninurUs of gold.
Incinerated gold cures inflammation of the body, if
taken with the bile of fish. It is nutritive, if taken
with the juice of bhringaraja. It serves as a tonic, if
taken with milk. It improves eye-sight, if taken with
the juice of punarnava ; serves as a rasayanam, if
taken with clarified butter ; improves memory, if
taken with bacha j improves beauty, if taken with
saJBFron ; cures fdithisis, if taken with milk ; removes
poison, if taken with nirbislfl (visalyakajmni). It
also cures insanity due to the three doshas, if taken
with shunthi, lavanga, and maricha.
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^ ^
(2)
Incinerated gold, when taken with powdered
maricha and ghee (clarified butter), in doses of two
ractis a day, cures phthisis, loss of appetite, asthma,
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nausea, jaundice, chronic diarrhoea, and all kinds
of poison. It increases vitality, strength, and is an
excellent tonic.
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sr^ram n
(0
Gold remains in liquid state, for a very long time,
if mixed with bone and fat of frog, borax, karabi
(saliva of horse, according to another version), and
an insect called indragopa.
( =* )
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<=)
The insect called Indragopa, duly powdered and
subjected to bhavana with the juice of devadali fruit
turns gold into water-like liquid, very nice to look at.
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m ftN <3f 5^ ?r^ ^ iwapm^ii
^CfR »raptf ^ CwRti t3Rf gwi^ii
Rouf^a (Silver).
The best silver has the following characteristics.
It is heavy, soothing, mild, white when melted, malle-
able, white as conch shell, smooth, glossy, and free
from cracks.
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ns* <fi?w ^ ^ I
T5Rf «inwns<n ii
Silver of eight kinds are to be rejected ; viz. that
which is red, yellow, or black, when heated ; and that
which is coarse, brittle, light, stiff, and rough.
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Variety of siher.
Silver is of three different kinds, viz, (i) that
which is as old as the earth (2) that which grows in
mines, and (3; artificial, that is, silver prepared from
base metals.
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?ra^ ft ?ifi?; 5!iift5in!j^ ^ft^ »ft<i u
(i) Silver vahich is as old as the earth.
Silver of this description is to be found in kailash
and some other mountains. Such a silver cures
diseases by mere touch only.
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rs ♦ ^ ____
qR?T cR [{
(2) Silver growing in mines.
The silver which grows in mines found in the
peaks of the Himalayas and In other places is called
mineral silver. Such a silver is a good curer and
preventer of senility.
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n
(g) A rtiUcial silver.
/ Artificial silver is the one which is nothing bi;rt tin,
copper, or lead, transformed into silver by ma*cury
(for processes of such transformation, see vol. I).
It cures all sorts of diseases, if applied fwoperly,
ifl;;
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Qmlities of silver.
(0
Silver is astringent and sour in taste, but it turns
sweet, when digested in the stomach. It is cool,
laxative, reducer of fat, increaser of appetite, soothing,
pacifier of vayu and kapha, and increaser of the
digesting heat in the stomach. It strengthens the
body, retains youth, and increases memory.
( )
(2)
Silver is cool, astringent, sour, pacifier of pittam
and vayu, and heavy in; point of digestion. It cures
all the diseases, if taken in accordance with the
regulations prescribed for taking of medicines effi-
cacious in curing and preventing senile decay.
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Slfs' ^ 5^' *ng ftT ^> |q: II
Silver is to be purified and inanerated.
Silver, not properly purified and incinerated, ini'
pairs longevity, semen, and strength. It gives rise to
inflammation and constipation^ It should therefore
be purified and incinerated.
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pwn rara; |
ii >raf 5in?n% I
Purification of silver.
First Process.
Leaves of gold and the other metals are best
purified if they are heated and immersed, while still
hot, seven times, in each of the following liquids, res-
pectively : — oil, butter milk, cow’s urine, aranala, and
decoction of kulattha.
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Second process.
Silver is purified, if it is melted for three times
with a little of lead and broax thrown upon it, and
then immersed each time in the oil obtained from the
fruits of jyotismati.
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gjt: i
Third process.
The centra pOrdoti of an ^iftihen pot is to be
enclosed by means of a mortar made of ashes and
lime. Inside this enclosure is to be kept silver and
an equal quantify of lead. The vessel is then to be
heated until the lead is burnt and consumed altogether,
leaving the silver purs and free from alloys.
I
Fourth process.
Leaves of silver are purified, if they are heated
for three times and immersed in the juice of agastya,
each time it is so heated.
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gf^w ^nwftr ^R^ii
rfm m^npir^Tw: sjrilw I
^ ft%%U II
Fifth process.
Physically pure silver is to be purified (medicinally)
by means of lead, etc. (see process II and III, above).
It is then .to be made into fine leaves which are to be
heated and immersed in the juices of tamarind and
raisins.
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ilMWw) g n
ai ni»5rail5r I
Incineration of silver.
First process.
Mercury and purified silver leaves, cut Into piecesi
are to be rubbed together, with the juices of lakucha,
and made into a lump which is to be put into a cruci-
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ble with powdered sulphur put above and below the
lump. The crucible is to be heated in a Baluka
Jantram for one day by means of a steady fire. When
cooled of itself, the lump is to be rubbed with haritala
and a sour vegetable juice, and then subjected to
putam for twelve times which will result in the inci-
neration of the silver.
I
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Second process.
Silver is to be rubbed with powdered makshika
and juice of matulunga and subjected to putam. Per-
formance of this proci^s for thirty times will lead to
the incineration of silver,
I
'Birarr 5^ 5st ^ H
Third process.
Leaves of copper are to be smeared with a paste
made of makshika, previously subjected to bhavana
with the milk of snuhi. They are then to be subjected
to putam' resulting in the reduction of the leaves to
such ashes as cannot be restored to their original
condition.
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I
mm rfR«T5rr^!ji mm ft firsdYl^cw^ \
q^rfcr ^ %q^o
m A g-n T^ | --l ^^ rr r- ^ «» — .
sg^q^lgrqq^ ^ q^ \
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Fourth process.
Four parts of purified silver leaves and one part
of purified haritalatn are to be rubbed together with
lime juice and dried. They are then to be confined
within a blind crucible and subjected to putam by
means of fire made of 30 pieces of cowdung cakes.
Performance of this process for fourteen times will
effect the incineration of the silver leaves.
^ fira' isra^ a wji
Fifth process.
Leaves of silver are to be smeared with makshika
and sulphur rubbed with the milk of arka. They are
then to be dried and subjected to putam which will
reduce the leaves to ashes
I
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gsf: ga: HTS n?Pl: II
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Sixth process.
Leaves of silver are incinerated, if they are
smeared with a paste made of hhumi-amalaki, mak-
shika, pippali, saindhava,and amla, all equal in quantity,
and subjected to putam, the process being repeated as
many times as necessary.
I
Seventh process.
Four parts of silver leaves are to be smeared with
one part of incinerated tin (or the same quantity of
sulphur and orpiraent, mixed together in equal quan-
tities), rubbed with lime juice. They are then to be
dried and subjected to putam by means of fire made
of 25 pieces of cowdung cakes. The process is to be
performed for three times resulting in the incineration
of the leaves. Powdered sulphur is to be put on all
sides of the leaves every time they are subjected to
putam.
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ftgr 5f H
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^ 5nq^ rTTST #sp: II
Eighth process.
Mercury and sulphur, equal in quantity, and root
of kakatunda are to be rubbed with buffalo’s milk and
dissolved with water. The solution is to be rubbed
with turmeric and made into a ball which is to be
kept inside a heap of horsedung for twenty one days.
The leaves are then to be smeared with a paste made
of the ball rubbed with some sour vegetable juice, and
then subjected to putam for 20 times which will cause
the reduction of the leaves to ashes.
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*R»T w]
Ninth process.
Silver leaves are to be made into a lump by means
of mercury. This is then to be rubbed with harkala
and sulphur by means of lime juice, and then Sub-
jected to putam for two or three times. This will
result in the incineration of silver.
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jrraRt ^531 )5?^( 3^ q^ ii
35^?jqt?aK ww U'Jira^ ii
Tenth process.
Three parts of silver leaves are to be smeared
with one part of haritala, previously rubbed for three
hours with some sour vegetable juice, and then sub-
jected to putamy by means of thirty pieces of cowdung
baEs found dried in pasturage. The process is to be
performed for fourteen times before the silver is re-
duced to ashes.
¥R»pn 3i«rftisj anr^ si: i
3iral ii
Ashes of silver are to be rubbed with purified
haritala by means of a sour vegetable juice and then
subjected to putam. The powder, thus prepared, cures
all sorts of diseases.
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Eleventh process.
Silver is incinerated, if immersed in a solution of
four times its weight of haritala, dissolved with the
juice of pomegranates, and subjected to Baraha
putam for three times.
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II
Uses of incinerated silver.
(i)
Purified and incinerated silver cures phthisis,
anaemia, udara-roga, piles, asthma, cough, loss of eye-
sight, and all sorts of diseases due to an abnormal
excess of pittam, if it is taken every morning (in doses
of one racti a day) with an equal quantity of incinerated
mica and copper, combined with powdered trikatu and
triphala, equal in quantity to the three combined — all
of these rubbed with sufficient quantity of clarified
butter and honey.
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pFRWr <I^N II
gw wwaiNanj
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II
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qs a,^ ^ ' si^’ TOfrosfhspw^ii
3fR^T^ 3?JTOTO5T
(2)
Silver, duly purified and incinerated, cures in-
flammation, etc, if taken with sugar ; it cures an
abnormal excess of vayu and pittara, if taken with
the triphala ; it cures gonorrhea, if taken with the tri-
sugandhi (guratwak, eia, and patrakam) ; it cures
gulma, if taken with kshara ; it cures cough, and
excess of phlfepn, if taken with the juice df basaka
and trikatu ; it cures asthma, if taken with bhargi and
shunthi ; it cures consumption, if taken with shilajatu ;
it cures thinness, if taken with meat juice or milk ;
it cures enlargement of the spleen and the liver, if
taken with triphala and pippali ; it cures dropsy, if
taken with punarnava ; it cures anemia, if taken with
oxidised iron of at least 6o years standing, duly puri-
fied and incinerated ; it cures senile decay, and also
increases beauty and appetite, if taken with clarified
batter.
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Liquefaction of silver.
Gold and silver turn into liquid (without the
application of heat), as soon as a little of devadali
fruit, powdered finely, and subjected to bhavana for
one hundred times is thrown upon the metal.
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ttsiH I
cPit atiigpran II
. Tamra {copper).
Copper is of two kinds, viz. that which is fou{»d in
Nepal, and that which is found elsewhere. The
copper found in Nepal is the better of the two. The
second kind of copper is known by the name of
“mlechha’’ copper.
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* Sewn times, according to another version. '
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Copper of the first kind is very smooth, soft,
red, malleable, heavy, incapable of losing its
properties by the application of heat, and has excellent
properties. Copper of the second class (*. e., mlechha
copper) is red with white or black tints, is hard,
causes vomiting in excess, and assumes a black
appearance even when washed off.
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Ckimtcitrisiks of bad wfl>or.
The copper which is pale, hlackbb red, light,
fhn of cracks, coarse, and consists of layers should
tMM be used in mercurial operations and medicines.
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aw' aroBW n
sue" aw" % aiffamr^i
a?c*n^
Characteristics of good copper.
Good copper is red as jaba flower ; is soft and
soothing, malleable, and free from iron and lead ;
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snch a copper should be used for incineration. For
the purpose of incineration, Nepal copper is to be
used. Other copper may also be used, if properly
freed from alloy. In the absence of absolutely pure
copper, the expert physician should make use of the
essence tf tutthaka (this essence being no other than
absolutely pure copper).
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few
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Properties of copper.
Copper is astringent, sweet and bitter, but sour and
pungent, when digested in the stomach. It is a pur-
gative. It pacihes pittam and phlegm, is cool, heals
boils, carbuncles, etc., is light, and cures obesity ; it
also cures the following diseases : — anemia, udara,
piles, fever, laprosy, cough, asthma, phthisis,
pinasa, dyspepsia with acidity, dropsy, worms, colic,
obesity, poison, and eye diseases.
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Evil properties of copper, not duly purified end
incinerated.
Copper^ not duly purified and incinerated, impairs
longevity,- beauty, semen, and strength. It also
gives rise to vomiting, loss of consciousness, nausea,
leprosy, and colic.
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ara‘ sEtfiw’
HlfM i a i R ' ntrat ^wfiwr ii
Purification of copper.
First process.
Copper is purified and freed from the five defects
referred to above, if it is melted with ksharas, amlas,
and gairikam by means of a fire of cowdung cakes,
and then immersed in butter milk prepared out of
buffalo’s milk, the proces.s bein^ performed for seven
times.
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sirat ftgaRTOjRa! u
Second process.
Leaves of copper, freed from alloys, are purified
medicinally, if they are smeared with rock salt, rubbed
with lime juice, heated, and then immersed into gruel
made of barley, the process being performed for
eight times.
w^w^i.'ftuEc^a II
Third process.
Leaves of copper are purified, if they are smeared
with lime juice mixed with saltpetre, heated, and
then immersed in the juice of nii^undi, the process
being performed for eight times.
I
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Fourth process.
Copper l^ves are purified, if they are boiled with
cow’s urine for three hours on a strong fire.
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Copper leaves are to be fa^sated and immersed in
the juice of nirgundi, after having been smeared with
the milks of snubt and arkay salt^ and kanji. The
process is to be repeated for 12 Umea The leaves
are then to be smeared again with chalk, and salt,
rubbed with butter milk, heated, and while still hot,
to be immersed in the juice of nirgundi, rubbed with
a sour vegetable juice. This last process is to be
performed for six times. This is how copper is
urified.
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Inctfteraimm of copper.
First process.
Copper leaves are incinerated, if they are smeared
with mercury and sulphur, rubbed with lime juice, and
then heated by putam, the process being performed
three times.
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aramifti iwmwj
Wm ?llwCOT w
nwnift irf^ ^ !!iRi% I
WBi* ft^ar *mii ?wft‘
am’ a^
Second process.
Thin leaves of copper are to be kept immersed
in cow's urine for 1 5 hours in an earthen vessel. After
the lapse of that period, mercury, equal in quantity
to the copper, and sulphur, double the quantity of
the same, are tp be put into that vessel, containing
cow’s urine. Changeri leaves, duly rubbed, are also
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to be put upon the copper leaves. The mouth of
the vessel is then to be dosed tightly and heat applied
underneath. Heating the vessel for three hours will
lead to the incineration of the copper which may now
be used for all purposes.
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I
II
sn^ «ins!jiri 11
i;8f fia;3l»Pn»n-
•S
Third process,
( Sotnanatka iarnram).
A fine and black powder is to be prepared
by rubbing together four parts of mercury, four
parts of sulphur, two parts of orpiment, and one
part of manas-shila. This black powder and copper
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leaves, equal in quantity to the mercury, are to
be put in layers inside a Garbha Jantram (see page
258, vol. I) and heated for three hours. When cooled
of itself, the leaves are to be powdered. The ashes,
thus prepared, cure colic, udara roga, anemia, fever,
gulma, enlargement of spleen and liver, phthisis, loss
of digesting power, gonorrhoea, piles, and chronic and
obstinate diarrhoea, if taken with suitable anupanam,
in doses of 6 ractis a day. This copper is called
Somanatha Tamraro.
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sist' av*!!' I
iMUi^«<pT fro'
jara’ ^
Fourth process.
Mercury with an equal quantity of sulphur, and
copper leaves, double the quantity of mercury, are to
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be rubbed together with the juice of kanya and kept
in an earthen vessel The iunalgani, thus prepared,
is to be covered by means of an earthen basin placed
inside the vessel the remaining portion of the vessel
being filled with salt. The vessel is then to be
covered closely by means of another earthen basin
placed at the mouth. The vessel is now to be heated
for 12 hours resulting in the incineration of the
copper leaves which are now to be powdered very
fine and used in all sorts of diseases, in doses of three
ractis a day, taken with honey and pippali. It is
especially eflScacious in gulma, enlargement of the
spleen and liver, hysteria, colic, udara roga, piles, and
diseases relating to the head. It also cures fever
affecting the seven dhatus ( i. e., liquid essence of food
digestnl, blood, smnen, fiesh, bone, fat, and marrow),
if used with suitable anupaiiftm. It mny be used in
medicines as weU as in mercurial operafions.
ii4aiiNii
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HW TO tJfWpH
n
A process
(Arka-talam^.
Copper and haritalam rubbed with lime juice and
subjected to putam will cause the incineration of the
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metal. The ashes, thus prepared, cure syphilis, bolls,
and other diseases due to an excess of kapha and
pittam.
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gff5R5r: Wf
♦iil^r=n I
I?? ^nsT^art ff^rg^fsi^ifesns^*^!
Sixth process.
Twenty tolas of purified copper and half its
quantity of mercury are to be rubbed t(^ether for
three days with lime juice. Purified sulphur, equal
in quantity to the copper leaves, is then to be rubbed
for two hours, with the copper and mercury. The
whole thing is then to be put into a glass bottle and
heated (by means of a Baluka Jantram #) for twenty
four hours. When cooled of itself, the contents of the
bottle are to be powdered This powder is the king
of copper ashes. It cureis leprosy, sutika, and all
sorts of diseases. It increases the dhatus.
# See page 259, Vol. I.
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gsniS »% w»r sns w»jf firaiw 11
Seventh process.
Copper leaves, smeared with the juice of tUaparni
plant, are reduced to ashes of white colour, if burnt
by putam,
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p[rsCT5f ’^r ft v TFT i r gq rf ^-
^rai^u
Eighth process.
Purified copper leaves, half its quantity dF mercury
and twice its weight of sulphur are to be rubbed with
the juice of dugdhika, and then subjected to putam
for one day resulting in the incineration of copper.
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^ i5Rct I)
Ninth process.
Copper leaves, as thin as can be pierced through
by means of thorns, are incinerated, if they are
smeared with kajvali (mercury and sulphur rubbed
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into a black powder), rubbed with lime juice, and
then exposed to the sun.
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fist 33^ sRCiq^ I
are* «
TeniA process.
Copper leaves, as thin as can be pierced through
by means of thorns, are to be smeared with an equal
quantity of sulphur, previously rubbed with some
sour vegetable juic^ They are then to be dried
and subjected to putam, and then powdered. The
powder is now to be mixed with one-fourth its
quantity of sulphur and rubbed with the juice of lime
fruit or of mriga durba, and then to be subjected to
putam. The last process is to be perfoi“med for four
times, after which the powder is to be rubbed with
the juice of matulunga and subjected to putam. This
is how copper is reduced to ashes.
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Eleventh process.
Copper leaves are to be rubbed with double their
quantity of mercury, rubbed with lime juice and
sugar-candy, and then subjected to putam. Three
such putams will bring about the incineration of the
copper.
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giPiN saisT ^^^1
<!«■ aw' aw
Twelfth process.
Cof^r Iraves are to be smeared with double their
qmndty of sulfdiur, rubbed with ibe juices of pashana
bitodi and tmtsyakshi and hiated by Gaja
{Kitam. The ct^^Msr is then m be rubbed again with
one seventh its wmght of suli^ur. rubbed with the
juice mendoned above and subjected to putam. Seven
SDi^ putams will result in the incineration of the
cofqper.
Wi^Ii Wwm I
fww fgwj 5 iBWii, n
tiw4»gi j 3
?ra?a' 3 w' Mwl^w 3 11
wsasw f^srpjt >Rig& ii
w*wi!w i^fsraw 11
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Thirteenth process.
Copper leaves and double their quantity of
mercury are to be rubbed with lime juice and kept
inside a crucible, covered with dhuttura leaves, upon
which are to be put powdered sulphur, equal in
quantity to the copper. Upon the sulphur ;is again to
be put copper leaves, rubbed as before, and dhuttura
leaves and sulphur to be put as before. The whole
thing is now to be covered with dhuttura leaves, and
the crucible, duly closed, is to be subjected to heat by
Gaja putam. When cooled of itself, the copper is to be
powdered and will be found to be in a state of
incineration.
WH. I
Nectarkatiom of incinerated copper.
Copper, duly purified and incinerated, is to be
rubbed with a sour vegetable juice and made into a
ball which is to bo confined inside a tuber of shuranam.
This tuber is to be plastered all over with mud and
dri(^. It is next to be subjected to heat by Gaja*
putam. Thus prepared, the copper will be freed from
all defects — it will no longer give rise to vomiting,
giddiness, purgation, etc.
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287
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Use of incinerated copper,
(0
Incinerated copper should be taken for six months
at a stretch with honey, juice of shalmali, and ghee
in doses of one racti a day. The diet, in this case,
should be milk, sugar, and rice or bread with ghee,
without any sour thing at all. Such a treatment
results in the increase of semen, nutrition, beauty, and
eye sight of the person who takes the medicine.
( ^ )
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( 2 )
Incinerated copper rubbed with honey and ginger
juice^ taken in the morning, in doses of two ractis a
day, cures all sorts of udara*rug;a.
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GLOSSARY.
Page 6.
Swallowing of mica by mercury— For processes, see pages y6— »
99, voh I. The mercury which swallows a metal
does not increase in weight, if the act of swallow-
ing is perfect.
Page 7.
Kalakuta poison— A highly poisonous tree having a black and
round tuber, the very odour of which is reported
to cause death. See vol III.
Kanji — See Glossary, vol I.
Page 8.
Triphala — See Glossary, Vol I, and Appendix.
Page 9
Bhavana — See Glossary, vol I,
Page 17.
Panchamitram — See page 45.
Page 28.
Prastha— See page 311, vol L
Page 30.
Khandaguda — Molasses subjected to heat, purified, and solidified.
Page 36
THEORY OF BAYU (VAYU) PITTAM, AND KAPHA.
Everyone of us is aware of the universal law of gravitation
by which material bodies have a tendency to move toimrds
the centre of the earth, which it is not feasible for them
to reach as they cannot pierce into the hard surface which presents
a serious obstacle to their downward passage. All material
substances we thus necessarily attracted towards the ^rth,
being unable to rise up in the air from its surfece. It
is, however, seen that many of them are not immoveably fixed
to the earth and can move about on its surface as men and
animals do. Inanimate things which are light in wdght can be
moved bither and thither by the force of wind, while thing!
[ ago 3
that are heavf remam attached to the earth with comparative
steadiness ; even these can possibly be moved from one place to
another in many cases, Why is this so ? If all material bodies
have an irresistible tendency to move towards the centre of the
earth, bow can it be possible for them to move about or be driven
from one place to another. The answer is that it is the existence
of wind and air which makes such movement possible* Air is
perpetually in motion, and, permeating through every substance on
the surface of the earth, imparts the power of movement to it
If th^e were no air, all things would have been immoveably fixed
to the surface of the earth without any power to move at all.
There is hardly any place in this world which is devoid of air,
which earists even in stone, iron, and other hard substances. All
substances are composed of minute particles, called atoms, which
adhere together iu such a way as to admit of some vacant space,
however small, between them, which varies in dlfierent substances
and which is to be found eveu in iron, stone, human system,
and in a mass of water as well* It is through these fine spaces
that air asters into all things. In bard substances, this intervening
space is very little, and the quantity of air that enters through it
is hardly perceptible.
What has been said above makes it abundantly clear that air
enters into all substances in the world and makes them
moveable. The greater the quantity of air in a substance, the
more capable it is of movement. Air enters into the human system
and rmiders it fit for loco-motlon. Not only does it enter through
the nostrils and the mouth, it also finds access into the human
body through infinitely small openings between its molecules which
are finer than the pores of the skin and are countless in number*
It penetrates deep into the blood, flesh, and bones ; and it is this
which causes the blood to circulate through the veins and arteries
in all parts of the body* Blood may flow down from the brain to
the extremities or it may rush to the head from the* feet
in a contrary direction. The first phenomenon may be due to
gravitation but the second can never take place without
the agency of air. We all speak of circulation of blood but we
do not perhaps know bow this is caused. The primary and only
cause of this circulation of blood is the constant presence of
air which enters into every part of our body and sets the entire
organism in motion. It is present everywhere and pervades the
C 29* 3
booes, the flesh, the blood, and even the minutest parts of our body^
If you apply beat to any part of your body, blood takes its course
in that direction, and on the other hand, if you apply cold to
any part, the blood tends to flow away from that part Vayu
or air is the cause of this movement. If heat is applied to
any part of the body, the air in that part becomes lighter and
expands by the action of heat and some portion of the ait shifts
to other parts. The vacuum thus caused is filled by the flow of
blood from other parts i.e., blood rushes in from other parts to
take the place of the displaced air. There is thus a ceaseless
movement going on within the body. An application of cold on
the other hand produces an opposite effect. When any part of the
body becomes cold the other parts of it become comparatively
warm ; hence a portion of the blood from the former rushes to
the warmer parts.
From this it is clear that without air we could not live, nor
could there be any circulation in the system. Vayu or air is there-
fore one of the main conditions of life, nay, it constitutes a primary
ingredient of animal organism. The various organic functions,
such as breathing, discharge of excreta, circulation, exercise
will power, and energy are carried on through its instrumentality.
Air, though forming one of the chief constituents of the human
body, acts prejudicially on it when it finds its way into the system
in an abnormal quantity. When it exceeds the quantity required
to stimulate circulation, the flesh, bones, marrow, etc, dry up
and become contracted under its pressure. The greater the
quantity of air generated in the system, the more heavily w!ll
it press upon blood, bones, etc. Allopaths now*a-days speak
of blood-pressure which is probably nothing but the pressure of
air upon blood. It cannot strictly be called blood-pressure, for
it does not press upon blood alone, but on flesh, bones, marrow and
other parts of the body as well.
Pitiam (animal heat).
The solar system is the fountain and source of ail beat, and
all things in this world derive heat from the sun, This warmth
which is present every-where in a more or less degree cannot be fdt
by the touch in all cases. If the heat of any substance exceeds
the normal temperature of our body, we say that it is heated ; if it
be less, we say that it is cold. The constituents of animal organism
E *9* ]
I. e. blood, flesh etc#, possess a natural warmth which is termed
pittam without which life would have been unsupportable. Like
air, it forms one of the vital constituents of our body.
But an abrormal increase of animal heat vitiates our blood
and brings on that state or condition of our body which is
usually termed bilious complication or derangement due to excess
of animal heat* This disorder gives rise to endless diseases. On
the other hand, an unnatural decrease of bodily warmth is no less
attended with danger. As excess or preponderance of pittam gives
rise to diseases, abnormal increase or decrease of the same may
even bring about death. Health and long life may be ensured
by maintaining the internal heat of the body in a normal condition.
Kapha {PAiegm},
It has been said that the function of air in the body is to
produce dryness or, in other words, to absorb moisture from it
while Uiat of pittam is to generate heat or warmth in it. The things
which constitute our body are rendered dry by air and warm
by puttam, but dryness and warmth me not the only attributes of
human organism which is also (dnuacteilsed by the quality of
coldn^ or tenderne^ without which life Isould Imve been impos-
sible. Besides dryness and heat, all the constituents of human body
possess softness which is present in the blood, bones, flesh, and
other vital parts. The general name for this all pervading softness
is phlegm, which is present in diflerent parts of the body in various
forms, and performs diverse functions. If there is excess of the
phlegm over what is necessary for the sustenance of life, various
diseases may develop ; on the other band, if it unduly decreases,
it may be attended with serious and baneful consequences. Total
loss of phlegm as well as an abnormal excess of the same may even
lead to death. The same remarks may be made with regard to
or air and Fitiam or animal beat Abnormal preponderance
of these three vital elements is as dangerous and baneful as their
abnormal decrease or loss.
Effects of Fayu, Pittam^ and Phlegm,
The following symptoms usually develop when wind (vayu) is
unduly in excess in our body Pain in the limbs, prostration,^
scanty evacuation of urine and stools, contractiou of the arteries,
nerves, etc. thirst, shivering, roughness of the skin, astringent taste,
dryness of the mouth, and high-coloured urine,^etc.
[ 293 ]
When the animal heat is unduly in excess, the following symptoms
appear : — burning sensation in the palm of the hands and feet,
redness of the skin, generation of excessive heat in the system,
promotion of digestion, sweating, etc.
Page 44.
Aranala — see Glossary, voL I.
Tankanam— borax.
Bhavana — see Glossary, vol, I.
Kosthi Jantram““see pages 262—267, vol. L
Page
Ghee— clarified butter.
Patala kosthi — see page 264, vol. I.
Page 54.
Kanta iron — an oxide of iron of which load stone is a variety.—
see vol. Ill, (in the Press),
Tikshna iron— steel.
Page 57.
Indragopa— a kind of insect, popularly known ^ in India as
mukhmuli insect
Page 57.
Human Oil^ — It is human fat that can be obtained in a most
cruel manner in the following way : —
A human hermaphrodite is to be fed for some time
on an exceptionally nutritious food which serves to
make the creature sufficiently fat It is then to be
flayed alive and hanged with its feet upwards and
head downwards, kept suspended over an iron caul^
dron heated by a strong fire. When sufficiendy
heated, fat begins to come out of the body of the
unfortunate creature and falls into the cauldron#
This fat is very efficacious in instantaneously
healing up wounds and cuts in animal bodies, This
is the oil which, according to tradition, the physi-
cian AsvinI Kumara applied in joining a goads head
with the body of king Daksba who had been be-
headed by his son-in-law, and thereby effected a
resurrection of the dead man.
The awfully cruel manner in which the oil can be
obtained can rarely induce m saaosdem Hindu Chemist
IL ,7
[ 394 3
to have recourse to the abominable process j
Human oil Is therefore a thing of the past in India.
Page 58.
Sauvarchala salt or usharaka — saltpetre (sora).
Page^ 65.
Tubart — ^alum clay*
Page 65*
Udara roga^ — diseases in the belly* They are of six varieties^
viz^ (i) Batodara — a disease which gives rise to
wind in the belly (a) Jalodara — dropsy, (3) Pliho*
dara— enlargement of tbe spleen, (4) Jakritodara— .
enlargement of the liver ; (5) Baddhodara which
causes chronic constipation, and (6) Mahodara—
a disease which causes an abnormal derangement
of all or almost all of the organs in the belly.
?age ?o.
Takram — ^butter milk.
Page 74*
Kukkuta Putam— ^ee page 296, vol* I.
Page 82.
Elankshi — Alum clay.
Kasisa — ^Green vitriol.
Page 83.
Vaikranta — ^corundum.
Page 93*
See treatment of Leprosy in Ashtangahridaya, etc.
Page 107.
Swarji — carbonate of soda.
Page 1 1 2.
DoJa Jantram — see page 250, vol I, Kharpara — calamine.
Page 122,
Ksbari salt — saltpetre.
Page X29.
Kacta^Gulma^ — Tumour arising out of mense blood.
Page 141.
Aratni — See Glossary, vol, I,
Page 146.
Kacta pittam — haemorrhage from the stomach through mouth,
rectum, nostrils, penice, vagina or from the pores
in the skin.
C 295 ]
Page 149.
Vrana shukram — A deep-seated, round-shaped white spot inside
the black part of the eyes causing an intense pain.
Shita pittam — erysipelas.
Udarda — erysipelas with fever, nausea, excess of phlegm,
inflammation, etc.
Visarpa — erysipelas.
Page 162.
Malla tnusha — see page 291, voL I.
Page 165. ,
Kavachi Jantram— The glass bottle referred to in Baluka
Jantram. see page 259, vol. I*
Page 175.
Karsba or tola is equal to x8o grains (not 126 grains as stated
wrongly in glossary of vol, I), see page 310, vol. I,
Page 182,
Bhagandara— .fistula.
Page 186.
Labanam — salt.
Page 190.
Navasaram— sal-ammoniac
Page 209.
Rajavarta — Lapis Lazuli.
Page 210.
Udavarta — chronic constipation attended with various complica-
tions.
Page 215.
Vida— see page 81 and elsewhere, vol. I*
tola — measure of weight equal to 180 grains.
Page 225.
Hingula— cinnabar.
Page 226.
Amla varga-— see page 301, vol I.
Page 228,
Dipta varga—
Pippali, pippalimula, chabya, chitraka, shunthi, maricha,
gajapippali, renuka, ela. vana jamani, indrajava,
patha, jeera, sarshapa, mabanimba fruit, hingu,
bhargi, madhurasa, atibisba, bacha, viraoga, and
katurohinL
[ 296 ]
Page 235-
Rasakai — calamine*
Hariula — Orpiment.
Manas shila — ^realgar.
TuUham— sulphate of copper.
Ksharas— see page 299, vol 1.
Amlas — see “ sour group” in page 301, voU I.
tankanam— borax.
Page 251.
Sindura— red vermilion.
Page 252.
Gajaputam — see page 295, vol. I.
Page 253. . *
Laghu putam— an act of heating a putam (see footnote, page 294,
' vol. 1.) by a light-fire made ot a few pieces of
cowdung cakes, put on all sides of the putam*
Page 254.
Makshika — pyrites.
Samputam or putam — see page 294, vol I.
Non-metallic acid — ”see sour group” in page 301, vol. L
Page 271.
Baraha putam — See Page 296, vol. I,
Page 273.
Mlechha—foreign,
Page 283.
Sutika — fever and other ailments following child birth.
Page 284.
Ractis— One racti is equal in weight to grain. See measures
of weight in page 310, vol I.
APPENDIX.
List of plants referred to at the foot-note
Glossary in Vol. I.
prepared by
UPENDRANATH DUTTA.
APPENDIX.
List of Plants.
No.
Sanskrit.
Bengali.
Hindi.
I
Agasti
Baka*
Hatya-
bakul
2
Agastya
Baka
Hatya-
bakul
3
. Aguru
Agura
chandan
Agar
4
Agoikarnt
5
Agnimantha
Ganiart
6
Anjan
7
Ankotaka
Ankora
Dhera
8
Ankotia
(See No. 7)
9
Ajakama
Pial
A$an
10
Ajamoda
Randhuni Ajmad
II
Ajasringi
Merhasin*
ghe
12
Ajaji
Kalajira
Jeera
13
Ataiusha
Basak
Arasha
U
Atasi
Masina
Tisi
Anantamula
Ananta- Upalsari
mul
i6
Aparajita
Apaiajita
Btshnu
Kranta
Apamarga
Apaog
La^ira
x8
Ambastha
Nimuko
Mahrati. Botanical.
Agastya- Sesbana
hadga grandiflora
Agastya- Sesbaoa
hadga grandiflora
Sisbacha Haruguhu- Aqutlaria
jhanti chetta agallocha
Premna
spinosa
Alangtum
hexape-
talam
Buchaoaria
i&tifolia
Ajmoda Baman Pimpinella
involacrata
Convolvulus
argentus
CuQunain
Arusha Adhatarai Justicia
adhatoda
Nallay- Lioum
gasichettu usitatissi- .
mum
Hemidismus
Indicos
Bisnu Clitorea
Kranta tematea
Agbaru Uttareui Achyrautes
aspera
Fatbchettu Cissampelas
hemaudi-
folia
4
appbwdix
No.
. SaDskrit. '
Bengali. Hindi.
Mahrati.
Tamil or
Telegu.
Botanical.
19
Amlabargas
20
Amlabetasa
Tbykol Amaltas
Ruxem
Vesicarius
31
Aragwadha
Sondal Sonebali
Thoreba Bella-
Cassia fistula
baba
chettu
22
Arka
Akanda Madar
Rui
Jiliettu-
Calotropis
cbettu
gigantea
23
Aijima
. Arjun Kahee
Arjuu'
Matti-
Terminalia
saraha
chettu
Arjuna
H
Ardba chan-
Krishna Pithori
Tier
Sibdai
Convolvulus
dnt
Tewri
turpetbum
as
Alamhosha
Falsbola
26
Asaoa
Piasal Asan
Asna
Terminalia
tomentosa
Aswagandba
Aswa- Asgandh
Asandh
Withania
gandba
somnifera
28
Aswattha
Asotb Pipai
Pingpal Kulujubi- Ficus
chettu
religiosa
29
Asil^haiiga
Harjora Horjori
Vitis qua-
drangularis
30
AstMsamhara (See No» 30)
3a
Abi
Nag- Kabab-
Nag-
Mesua terrea
ke^ra cbini
kesarlu
3a
Ahiphena
Afim Aphioi
Aphun
Abini
Papaver
somnifeium
33
Akshika
Anch
34
35
Aknli
Akhokarni
Indur- Musa-
Bbopli
Salvinia
kani kani
cucullata
36
Akhupami
(See No. 35)
37
Adhaki
Arbar Rabar
Cajanus
Indicus
38
Amahikf
Amlaki Amla
Anbul
Phyllantbus
emblica
39
Ardfaka
Ada Adrak
Ala
Zingiber
ofiicinalis
B
40
Baodliuka
Bandbuli Gogulia
Banduja Maku-
Pentapetas
chette
Phoenicia
41
Bandbajihaka (See No. 40)
4 »
Baodbya
Kankrola
A bitter sort
of gourd
APPBNDIK
No.
Sanskrit Bengali, Hindi.
Mahrati.
Tamil or
Teleau.
43
Bandhya*
(See No. 42 )
karkoti
44
Babbura
Babla Babul
Nala-
tumma
45
Barbati
Batbati
46
Barbara
(See No. 44 )
47
Bala
Bedela Bijbano
Pachi-
togge
48
Bakuchi
Someraji Babchi
Bowchi
49
Baluki
Bang!*
kakur
SO
Bodhi
Pipul Peepar
PippuU
Pippali
51
Brahma-
Bamun-
Brahma'
dandi
dari
daoda
5»
Brahmaputra
Chupri Geti
Barahi-
Alu
kand
3Z.
Brahtni
Brahmi Baramabhi
Biibi
54
Baka
(See No. i)
55
Bakula
Bakul
56
Bacha
Bach Bach
Bekhoore Barja
57
Bajrakanda
Sakar-
kand
S 8
Bajri
Narasij
59
Bata
Bat Bar
Bat
All
60
Batsanabha
Mithabis Mitba
Bach-
Baaaabi
i
oag
t
61
Banabrin-
taka
62
Banashurana
Buno
Ole
S
Botanical.
Acacia
arabica
Dolichos
catjcng
Sida cordi-
folia
Psoralea
corylifoUa
Piper longum
Laraprachoe-
ninm micro -
cephalu*"a
Dioscorea
globosa
Herpestis
monoiferia
Mimusopa
eleagi
Acorus
calamus
Euphorbia -
antiquonim
Ficus Benga
leasts
AOonituiU
ferox
Wildwriety
of arum
&PFEHDIX
fi
No.
Sanskrit
Bengali. Hindi.
Mabrati.
Tamil or
Telegu.
Botanicat
63
Barbari
Babui
Ocynum
Talsi
Pilosum
64
Banari
Alkushi Goncha
Kuhiri
Kali
Macuna
pruriens
65
Bajasi
Diospyros
tomentosa
66
Barahikanda
(See No. 52)
67
Bartakini
68
Bartaku
Begun Bbanta
Bange
Kuthire-
Solanum
kai
melongena
69
Basaka
Bakas Arusha
Arusha
Arsar
Justicia
adhatoda
70
Basa
71
Bastu
Betosak
Cbakbal
Chenopo-
dium album
7a
Baatuka
(See No. 71)
73
Bijaya
Siddhi Bhang
Canabis
sativum
74
1
1
Bidanga Babi-
Barbati
Baibi-
Embelia
rang
long
ribes
75
Bidari
Bhui- Bilye-
Bhumi-
Matta-
Ipomoea
kumra kand
kohole
paliig
digitata
76
Bidarikanda
(See No. 75)
77
Bibbitaki
Birekarka
Bahera Tinas
Behara
To-andi
Beleric
myrobalaci
78
79
Bilba
Bel Bel
Bel
Bilba
Aegle Mar-
melos
80
Bishala
81
Btaacnusti
Ghora- Bisdori
Melia azadi-
nim
racbta
83
Bbnukraota
(See No. j6)
83
Bijapuraka
Taba Bijoura nebu
Citrus medica
84
Bijapura ,
(See No. 83)
8S
Briddhi
*
86
Brin taka
(See No. 68)
87
Briachil^li
Bichuli Bar-
Briscbi-
Kan-
Tragia
banta
kali
churi
involucrata
APntMQlX
7
No.
Sanskrit. Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati,
Botanicals
88
Brihati
Bribati Bar- Dorli
Kuk-
Solanuco'
^ hanta Bigni
macbi
lodicam^
89
Betasa
Bet Berisu
Jatmay-
Calamus
urkuli
rotong
90
Byagbrapadi
Boncb Kaotai Gul-
Kanbegu Flacourtia
gboQta
Chettu
Ramoacbi
91
Byaghri-
kaoda
Branagfani
(Smaller ‘Karabella')
93
Bbanga
(See No. 73)
94
Bbadramusta Nagar*
Cyperus
mutba
Pertenuls
95
Bbadramusta
See No. 94
96
Bballataka
Bhela Bhilaba Bib
Sankot-
Semecarpus
tai
auacardium
97
Bbabya
Chalta
Dillania
lodica
98
Bhargi
Bamun- Barangi Bhang!
BhaoU
Clerodeu*
bati
maraBgi
dron Sipho-
nanibus
99
Bbukadamba
❖
Celsea Coro*
mandelibe
100
Bbunimba
Cbirata Cfairaita Chiryta
Geutiana
Cbiraita
JOI
Bbumikush*
(See No. 75)
manda
102
Bbumia«
Bhui- Bhadra- Bhuang-
Flacourtia *
malaki
amala aogbara beli
Cataphracta
103
Bborja
Bbuiji-
Betttla bhoji
patra
patra
104
Bhusirisa
xos
Bhriogaraja
Bhiroraj Bhangra Pibalmaka
Verbesina
•
Calen^utacea
106
Bbeudapatri
c
J07
Cbakra-
Chakan- Cbakhar Tarbata Khudm-
Cassia tora
marda
da
biaetmu
B
APFtMOlX
No.
Sanskrit.
Bengali. Hindi.
Mahrati.
Botanical.
xoS
Chanaka
Chbola Ghana
Ghana
Cicer arieti*
nnm
109
Chandali
Banch‘
gunia
zxo
Charturbali
Cbandan
Cbandaoa
Sirium myrti-
folium
Its
Chapala
Chabya
Chai
Piper Cbata
1 14
Chablka
See No. 113
Chaogeri
Amrul Chow-
Ambabati
Rhumex
patia
vesicarus
X16
Chatnijata
Chlkkatia
Sapafi
Areca catechu
iiS
Cbioohika
Tentul Iinii
Imll
Tamarindas
Indicos
119
Oi^mcbtQi
(See No. 118)
120
Cbitraka
Cbeeta Chita
Chitrak Chitra*
Plumbago
121
Chukra
See No. 115
mui
Zeylanica
122
Chakrika
See No, 115
D
Dartma
Dalima Anar
Darim Darimm
• Punica
chettu
granatum
xa 4
Danti
Danti Hakam
Danti Danti^
Croton poly-
chettu
andrum
iH
Darbit Dar-
Gojia Gori
Elephantopas
bika
Dashacdula
The root of
scaber
126
(a) Bilba
Bel Bel
Aegle mer-
melos
137
(b) ShoDf&k Sooagach Aria
Tentu Pan
Bignonia
Indica
128 (c)Gambfaa;ri Gamar Sibani Gambhari Gmeliaa
arbora
atg (d) Paral , Bignonia
saaveolens
APPENDIX
9
No.
Saoskrtt
Bengali* Hindi.
Mahrati.
Tamil or
Telegu.
Botanical
130
(e) Ganikerika Ganiari
Premna
serratifolia
131
(f) Shalpami
Salpani Satiban
Salaban
Hidysarum
gangeticum
132
(g) PrlshDi-
Chakula Pithbaa
Sebara
Kolaku-
Doodia lago-
* parni
ponna
podioides
133
(h) Kantakari Kanti- Kanti-
Solanum
kari ragini
Jaquinii
134
(i) Brihati
(See No. 88)
13s
()) Gokahura
Gok- Gok-
Tribulus
shura shura sal
terrestris
136
Darubaridra
Daru- Daru-
Marman>
Berberis
haridra haldi
asiatica
137
Dugdhika
Chote-
Dudhi
Asclepias
khirye
rosea
*38
Darba
Durba Dubba
Arugam-
Panicurn
pulla
Dactylon
^39
Debdaru
Debdaru Debdac
Pinus deo-
dara
140
Debadali
Deotara Sonaya
Debdali Danran-
Andropogoo
gari
setatus
S 4 t
Draksha
Kismis Angur
Draksha Draksha-
Vitis vmifera
pondu
142
Dronapushpi Ghol- Gutna
Kumba
Enuge-
Leucas lint-
gboshe
tugmi
folia
H$
Dbattura
Dbutura Dhutra
Dbattur Karumte Datura fas-
tuosa
244
Dhanya
Dhoaai Dhaaia
Kotmalli
Coriandram
Sativum
H 5
Dbaba
Dhowa Dhau
Dbatnora Narinja
Conocarpus
chatter
latifolia
146
Dhataki
Dhyeful Dhabsi
Dfaaiti
Jargi
VVoodfordta
floribunda
147
Dbatri
See No. 39
14S
Dbanya
Dhaa
Oryza sativa
149
Dbustura
See No. 143
E
S50
Eraada
Veranda Rerhi
Amid-
Eicinus
puchittu
communis
10
apfihbix
No .
Sanskrit.
BengaU. Hindi. Mahrati*
Ela
Elacb Elacbi Elachi
Eluchettu Eletaria car-
G
damomum
152
Gajapippali
Gajpipul
Gajpip-
Pothos offi-
palu
cinalis
153
Gamkaiika
(See No. 5)
154
Gandadurba Ganda- Gandari Ganda
Knotted bent
dtirba dubipacb diirba
grass
iSS
Gaudha-
Gandha* Nye
Opbyioxylon
nakoli
rasna
Serpentmiioa
156
Gambhari
See No, 128
m
Gardabbanda Gaya-
Hibiscus
sootha
populneus
IS*
Guggulo
Guggnl
Balsa moden*^
dron mukul
159
Guoja
Kunch ChiTmiti Erani
Abrus preca<-
torius
160
Gtuatwaka
Dalcbini
Cinnamon
Zelaynica
161
G:aduchi
Goluncha Gurach Sulbeli Tippatoge Tinospora
cordifolia
162
Gojihba
Gojia Govi
Elepbantopus
scaber
163
Godbapadi
Goalelata
Vitis pedata
164
Gopala
Kocn- Goru-
karkati
druki bbaba
165
Gakshara
Gokshur Gokshur-
Tribulus
sul
terrestris
166
Grishma
Girae s&k
Pbarnaceum
stiDdara
mailugs
167
Gbantapatali Ghonta- Mosba
A kind of
parul
trumpet flower
168
Ghrita-
Ghrita- Ghrita- Kubari
Aloes perfo-
kumari
kumari kumari
lita
169
Ghosha
Ghosba Kartarai Kahire
Luffa amara
H
170 Hansapadi See No. 163
APPENDIX
IP
No.
Sanskrit.
Bengali. Hindi.
Mahrati. Botanical,
171
Haridra
Halud Hardi
Haldi Pasup
Circuma
longer
172
Haritaki
Hartuki Harrha
Hiraba Karak-
Chebulic
cbettu
myrobelan
r 73
Hastikarna- Bbupalash
Butea
palasha
superba
174
Hastishundi Hatisurra
Nelbal
Heliotropium
Indicum
175
Hingu
Hing Hingu
Ingoor
Ferula asa-
foetida
176
Hingupatri
Bansapa-
Balanitis rox-
tratrina
burghi
177
Hilamo-
Hinchi Hurhuch
Enbydra fluc-
cbika
sak
tuans
178
Hemcbandra
I
179
Ijjala
i
Hijal Ijar
Parjaya
Engenia acu-
tangula-
180
Indrajaba
Kurchi Indrajab
Holarrhena
antidysen-
terica
181
Indrabaruni Rakhal- Indra-
Indra-
Cucumis colo •
sasa baron
baruni
cynthis
182
Ikshu
Ak Gande
Cheroku Sacchatum
-
ofbcinarutD
183
Iksbaku
Tita-Iau Tumbi
Koru- Cheti
Lagenaria
j
bhopla anub
vulgaris
184
Jatamansi
Jata- Konuchar
Valeriana
mansi
Jatamansh
^85
Japa, Jaba
Jabaful
Hibiscus Rosst
sinemsis
186
Jambira
Gonra- Nioibu
Id Nimma*
Citrua medicaJ
nebu
cbettu
187
Jayanti
Dhanche Joit
Sobeti
Sasbanla
aculeata
188
Jayapala
Joypala
Croton tigliucn
X2
APPENDIX
No. Sanskrit.
Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
189
Jaya
See Bhanga
190
Jalapippalt
Kanchra- Panisga
dam
191
Jati
Chameli
Jasminum
grandiflorum
191
Jwalamukhi Hurhur Halhul
Surjaful-
Cleome Vis-
balli
cosa
198
Jatipatri
Joitti Jabatri
Myristica
officinalis
194
Jeeraka,
Jira Jira
Cuminum
Jeera
cymiaum
195
Jibaka
Jibak
Pentaptera
$
tomentosa
196
Jeebanti
Jibai
Celtis prientalis
197
Jotismati
Latafatki Malkan-
Bikku-
Cordiosper-
guri
dutoge mura halica
cabum
198
Jamani
Jowan Ajowan
Uba Aman
Ptycbotis
Ajwan
199
Jaha
Jab Jub
Juj Godbu-
Hordeum
mlu
hexsastikon-
200
Jabaticta
Kalmegh Jabecbi
jor
Jostimadhu Jasti- Molatti
Glycyrrhiza
madhu
Glabra
201 Jamachincha
203 Jakshalochana
204 Jathika Jui Juhi Padanjui Jasminum
auriculatum
.305 Jbinti Jhaoti Karsarata Beleria cris*
lata
K
206 Kankola Asoka Asogi Saracti Indica
207 Kangu Kangni- Kodralu Panicum luli-
dhan cum
.208 Kanganika (See No. 207) Pamcum Ilali-
cum
APPIMDIX
No. Sanekiit. Bengali. Hindi. Mahtati. Botanical.
209
Kanchuki
Khiryc
Asdeplaaroaea^
210
KaUpbala
Katphala Kayapbal Kaya-
Myrica sapidi^
211
Katutumbi
pbal
Titalau Tumbi
Cbetimer Lagenaria
212
Katurobini
Katki Katki
vulgaris
PIcrorhiza
213
Kathilla
Ucbha
kurooa
Mimordica
214
215
Kaoa
Kantakari
Kaotikan
Chaiaoda
Solanum Jae*
216
Kantarika
See No. 215
quini
217
Kataka
NitoiiaH Chilu
Strychnos
218
Kadamba
Kadam Kolam-
potatorum
Kadimi- Naudea
219
Kadali
bu
Kala Kela
cbettu kadamba
Donetoge Musa ^pioa*
220
Kanaka
Nageswar Kabab<
turn
Nangai Mesua ferrea
221
Kanya
cbini
See No. 168
222
Kapithha
Kotbei Koitb Kambit
Belog- Feronia ele-
223
224
Kapotika
Karunji
Karancha Karoda
cbettu pbantum
Kanag> Pongamia
225
Karamarda
Amla Karoda
cbettu glabra
Do. Do.
226
Karabira
karanja
Karabi Kanoili Konoilu
Gonneru Neriam
227
KaTkatsringi Kakia- Kakta- Kakra-
odorum
Karka** Acummata
228
Karkati
sringi sringi srtngl
Kankur Kankri
sringi
Nakka. Ctteumis uti-
220
Karkatu
Kumra Kohari
dosb latisimus
Benincasa
cerifera
APPSKDIX
M
No. Sanskrit. Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
Kai:kotik&
Kakrote
Alangiui
Hexapetalum
Ktmikara
Chota
Laghu-
Kira-
Casia fistula
soadal
bababa
gokke
#3*
Karfmra
Karpur Kapur
Kapurme Cianamomum
Camphora
«33
KarpttrabelH
a34
Kalakrora
^35
Kalambi
Kalmi Karebu
Coufolvulus
aak
repeus
J36
Kalaya
Mature
Pisam Sativum
«37
Kalikad
Islangala
Gloriosa
superba
tfS
JKaioga
Tarmuz
Cisalpmta
boaducelia
^39
SMIliafi
See No. *37
bifta
tbenga
M 4 t
Kakatundi
Kewa- Kabagh Kabaya
tbuuthi
242
ICakamaojari
«43
Kakaoiacht
See No. 241
*44
Kakini
Kuoch
Abrus preca-
tonus
345
Kakodum-
Kakdu-* Elatum-
Ficus hispida
barika
mur bhari
246
KakoU
Kakla
Kazeli
Calculus In-
dicus
247
ICaocbatia
Kanchtn Kkcbur Kochanai Oeb-
Bauhtnta
kaocbau variegata
248
Kanclmaara
See No. 247
249
Kastoudum- KakoU (See No* 246)
bara
250
Karabella
Karala Karail
Kakat<
Mlmordica
cbettu
Muricata
2 Sl
Kamraziga
Kam*
Karma*
Averrboea
raoga
racbe
carambola
APPBMDUC
*5
No. Sanskdt. Bengali, Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
35 ®
Karpasa
Kapas
Gossypium
barbaceum
aS 3
Kimsuka
See No. 369
*54
Kiratatickta Chiiata
Chiraiyta
Nilbesa
Agatbotus
cbirayta
*55
Kukkurdru
Kuksima
Blumea lacera
356
Kutaja
Kurchi
Kabaya Kabaya
Tummi-
Echites aoti-
chettu
dyseotertca
*57
Kunda
358
Kumari
Same as ghritakumari
*59
Kumbhi
See No. 158
360
Kulattha
Kurti-
Dolichosuoi-
kalay
dorus
a6i
Kulika
Kula*
(See No* 268)
khara
363
Kushanda
Kumra
Kucnra
Gamri
Beniocasa
cerifera
363
Kusumbha
Kusum-
Karida
Carthamus
ful
jharh
tinctoritts
364
Krlsbnajalaka
36 $
Krishna-
Kalajira Mongrail Kalejifi Nallajir
Nigella 3ati?a
jeeraka
366
Kesharaja
Kesurte Bbegoria
Eclipta erecta
367
Kaibarta.
Kesur-
Cipetas rotan*
mustaka
mutba
das
368
Kokilaksha
Kule-
Kouaya Kolisa
Gobbi-
Hygropbila
kbare
cbetta
spinosa
369
Kodraba
Kodo*
Kodra-
Pispalam-
dhan
ban
scrobtcalatnm
370
Koranti
371
Kola
Kul
373
Kasbalaki
Jingha
Nanka
Luffia actttan-
gala
*73
Kkadira
Khait
Changra- Acacia cate*
cbetdu
cheu
*74
Kbarjura
Khajur
Sindhi
*75
Kshairkakoli
APPKNDIX
i6
No.
Sanskrit. Bengali. Hindi. Mabrati.
Tamil or
Telegu.
BotanicaL
376
Kjhirbfdari
Sada*
bhukutora
377
Ksbiriat
Khirni
378
Kbiri
See No. 257
L
379
Lakucha
Maodar Barbar
Anocarpus
lakucha
380
Ltjjalu
Lajgabati Lajala
Mimosa
pudica
381
LatakaraDjA
Kama-
kari
383
Latakasturi
Lata- Mcsttk-
Hibiscus abel-
kasturi dana
moscbus
383
Iiabaiiga
Labanga Long Labanga- Laban-
Caropbyllus
kalika galu
aromaticus
384
(See Kalikari)
"S85
Lak^
Laha I^afai
Lanka
Coccus laca
386
Lodbm
Lodh Lodh
Sympbcus
raeemosa
M
387
Manjistha
Man-
Manjtti
Rubia cor-
jistha
difolia
388
Manda*
Tbulkuri Thulknri
Mandi-
Hydroctyle
kapatni
kbatni
Asiatica
389
Malay akshi
See Hilamchika
390
Madana
Moynafal Karhat Menabal Honda-
Kanda dume-
cbettu
torium
391
Madhoka
Moul Mobua
Pinna
Bassia lati folia
393
, Mayura**
Lalmo- Mayut-
Celosia cris-
ihikba
rogpbnl sikha
tata
»93
Mancha
Marich Marich Maricb
Milagu
Piper nigrum
*94
Mambaka
Gandha-
Ocymumcaryo
tulsi
pbyllatum
*9S
MalHka
Mailika Billmo-
Malla-
Jasminum
gra
Cbettu
sambac
396
MasQora
Masuri Masut Cbanai
Misoo-
Cicer lens
rappu
APPBNBIX
No, Sanskrit.
297 Mabakali
298 Mahabala
299 Mahabheri
300 Maharasti
301 Matuiunga
302 Marisha
303 Melati
304 Masha
305 Mashaparai
306 Meenakshi
307 Mundi
308 Mundiri
309 Mudga
310 Muramansi
31 1 Musali
312 Musakami
313 Musta
3x4 Mutba
315 Mulaka
316 Mala
317 Mrigadnrba
3x8 Meghanada
Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
Maha-
Cu scuta zeur-
bheribach
mbet
Same as Jalapippali
Same as Bijapura
Kantanatia
Echites cary 0
pbyllata
Mash-
Phaseolus
kalai
radiatus
Mashani Mashani Ranurdi
Taramunus
labialis
Brahmi Barombbi
Thulkuri (See No, 288)
Bimi
Harpestis
monniatia
Mundiri Mundi
Rottak
Spherantbus
Indicus
Mug Muog Mug
Pasalu
Phanolus
mungo
Ekangi
Muraya
exotica
Talmuli
Circuligo
orchioides
See No. 36
Mutha Motha
Cyperus rotan
dus
Murba Chume* Gonasful Sagu Sansevieria
lar zeylanica
JSlula Mull Molanga Mulaoga Raphanus
sativiis
See No. 315
Katanatia Chabrai Tandalika Mollu-^ Amaraxithiii
kirai spiooaa
3x9 Meda
Meda
iS
APPENDIX
No. Sanskrit. Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
330
331
33a
3*3
Meshasringi See No. ii
Mocharasa
Mokahaka Ghanta Mosha Mokhe Mokku- Schrebera
patali puchettin Sweitenioidi
Mohameda
N
3*4
Naktili
Nakull Chaudra
Vanda rox-
burghii
3*5
Nakhi
3s6
N&kali
Sea No. 334
3*7
Nagftkesara
Same as kanaka
338
Nftgadaati
Hatisnrra Nagdanti
Heliottopium
Indicnm
3*9
1
1
Goraksha* Kakabi
Sida spinosa
cfaakuk
330
N^gwjani
33*
.N*g**«ai»
Same aa Kanaka
33 a
Tagar-
pndaka ^
333
Nichnla
Hijal See No. 179
Barringtona
acutaogula
334
Niniba
Nim Nim Nimbti Sepa-
Melia axadi-
cbettu
rachta
335
Nimba
Ekgjilebn
33«
Nugnndi
Ntc^da Mewdi Ungnr Nokchi
Vitex negundo
337
Nirbtsha
338
Neelajbinti
A variety of No. 305 with blue dower
339
NUi
Neel
Indigospera
tinctoria
34a
Ntliim
Same as No. 339
34*
Nyagrodl^i
See No. 60
P
Faneluuzirita
34* (a) ghee
$43 0>) Jjoney
344 («) guggnlu
Bdhllium
APraNDlX
*9
No.
Sanskrit.
Bengali.
Hindir
Mahrati. Botanical.
345
[d) gunja
Abrus preca*
torius
346
(e) t^inkanam
347
Pa tola
Patol
Parwar
Kahipar- Kooamu- Trycbosanthis
bal patol
Bioica
348
Padma-
Sthala-
Hibiscus muta*
charini
padma
bills
3349
Paandu
Peaz
Piaj
Sweta* Benjoim Alium sepa
kanda
350
Palasha
Palasha
Dhara
Palas Parshan Batea fron-
dosa
3SI
Patala
Bihidaoa
35*
Patha
Aknadi
Nimuka
Path-
Cissampelos
chettu
hernandifolia
353
Patali
Parul
Pad
Padli Padri
Bignonia
suaTeolens
354
Patalmuli
355
Paribhadra
Paltama- Fatfaad
Paagra Murak
Eritbrina
dar
lodica
356
Parula
(See No. 333 )
367
Pashaabhedl
358
Pippali
Pipal
Pipar
Pippali Pippali
Piper Longum
359
Pippalimula
Boot of Do.
360
Peetajhinti
A yellow variety of No. *05
361
Feetabala
362
Peetasala
Piasal
Pentapteva
tomento&a
363
Peelu
Pilu
Jhal
Pila Koku
Salvadora
lodica
364
Putranjiba
Jiaputa
Putrajib Jibanpu-
Futranjiva
tac
roxburghi
365
Punarnaba
Punar-
Santa
Pandari-
Boerhavia
naba
ghentalu
diffiisa
366
Paskara-
Pnskar-
Phokt-
Aplotaxis aim*
mula
mala
moU
qolata (root oQ
367
Futikanmja Nata
Cisalpinia
katanja
bonddcella
90
AFPKHBIX
No. Saoikrit Bengali. Hindi. Mabrati. Botanical
$66 Frishnipami Chakuk Fithban Sebra
$S^ Frasarmi (See No* 300)
370 Friango Priasgu Frifang Gohala
37X Fhenila Ritha Ritba
Doodia lago-
podioides
Aglaia roxbur*
ghiana
Kukudu- Sapindas tri-
koila foliatus
379 Riddy Riddhi
373 Risata
374 Raktakanda Raktalu Raktaru
Dioscorea
373 Raktadiaii* Red variety of No. xxi
^kna'
Bidctidii- Do. of No. iso
txaka
$77 Raiit* piiBar. Red mwty of Panansab*
wd)*
378 Raktala Lalpin* Rsktain Dioseorea
dalu ntiva
$79 Ranjsn*
380 Rambhs See No. S19
381 Ruona Rsson Lason Pansssn* Telia- Alium sativam
belli
3^s Rajadaoa Khimi Khiri Raini Falla Mimnsops
bexandta
383 Rale Dbnna Kbgli Joice of
mimosa mbit
canlis
384 Rasna Rasna Vanda roxbnr
gbii
385 Raksbasi Mura- (See No. 310)
386 Rodand Rudanti
387 Sankfaa- Dankuni
pnipi
Andiopt^n
aoricolatnin
APPBMBIX
21
No.
Sanskrit.
Bengali.
Hindi.
Mahrati. Botanical.
388
Satamuli
Satamuli Satabari
Sanikan- Challa
Asparagusra-
teseru
cemosa
389
Satabari
(See No. 388)
390
Sampaka
(See No. 22)
391
Sarapunkba Bananil
Sara-
Utillali Kollu-
Tephrosia par-
pbonka
koibelloi burea
39a
Sarkara*
Sakar-
Sakar-
Bulliki-
Ipomoea bata-
kanda
kand
kand
jahangu
tas
393
SakhoU
Seora
Sahora
Sahod Bamki
Striblus aspe
394
Sala
Sala
Sala
Epe-
Shorea robusta
chettu
39S
Sataparni
Saipani
Sariban
Hedyasarum r
gangettcum
396
Salt
Amon-
A kind of rice
dhan
397
Salmali
Simul
Simur
Sambari Pula
Bombax mala-
baricum
398
Salmalikanda
Sambari*
Root of Do.
knnda
399
Signi
SajiiiK
Sabinjan
Moranga Morioga pte-
rygosperma
400
Simbi,
Sim
Sembi
DoUchos
Simbika
gladiatus
401
Sirisa
Siiis
Siris
Dirson
Acacia lebbee
402
Sibaliogi
Lingini
403
Suntbi
Sunth
Suntbi
Gingiber ofB-
cbalia
404
Sttrana
Ole
Ole
Suranu Suran
Arum campa-
nulatum
405
Sringaka
406
Sobhanjana
(See No. 399)
407
Sfamakan*
dalika
408
Sreedebi
409
Swatajhinti
White variety of No. 205
410
Swetabala
41 1
Swetarki^
White variety of No; 23
22
APPENDIX
No*
Sanskrit
Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
412
Sastika
Shetedhan
413
Saptapama
Chhatim Echites
schoUaris
414
Sarani
Same as Prasarini
4^5
Sarala
Same as Debdaru
416
Sarja
Sal
Mimosa rub‘
cauiis
417
Sarja^rasa
(See No, 405)
41S
Sarpakshi
Panseli Sahacbar
Oppiorribiza
mangos
419
Saraapa
Sanaa Sarso
Brassica cam
pestris
420
Sabadebi
See No. 418
421
Saba
Same as Mashaparni
422
Snbunda
Mansasij Sehendn
Euphorbia
nerifolia
Snrfabarta
Hnrbure Hal hnl Smjafal*
CiesQtne Vis
balU
cosa
424
Somaralt
Somi^Jt Bokcbt Bawchi
Tif^r
VMRpniA
toge
anthelminrii
4*5
Sonoalata
Somlata
PulU-
Asdepies
toge
acida
426
Snnhi
See Na 422
T
427
Tagara
Tagar Tagar-
Nandi-
Taberroemc
cbandi
bardhan- tana coror
cbettu
ria
428
Tagarapa-
Tagar- „
IS
dika
padnka
429
Tanduliyaka
See No. 338
430
Tambnla
Pan Pan
Bettili
Piper betel
45^^
Talmuli
Talmuli Mnsali
Neltar
Citculigo ore
oides
45*
Talishapatra Taiiah- Talish*
Talisb-
Pinus webbi
paU patri
patri
ana
433
Tintiri
Tentul Imli Imli
Chint
Tamarindui
Indicos
AFPBHOIX
»3
No. Sanskrii- Bengali. Hindi. Mahrati. Botanical.
34
Tiaduka
Gab Tend
Tembar- Tamik
Diorpyrus
Tila
uan
glutinosa
■35
Til Mithatil
Til Nubbulu Sisamum Tn-
dicum
136
Tilaparni
Tiloni
137
Topchini
Topchini Chobchini
Smiiax china
(Dvitan-
(China root)
tara Vacha)
138
Tumbura
Nipali Tejbal
Tendu Tumburu Zanthoxylon
dhania
aiatum
439
Tumbi
Lao Kadu
Cercur-
Dudhya*
bita
langenaria
bhopla
440
Tulasi
Tulasi Baranda
Tulsiche Tulasi
0
Ocymum
jarh
Villosum
441
Tuttha
Tunt Tutri
Bangrali Madhu* Kambali
sahur
kattai
chettu
chedi
442
Trapusa
Sasa Kbira
Towsi- Dogkoya Cucumis
karkati
sativa
Trikatu—
443
(a) Sunthi
(See No. 403 )
444
(b) Pipul
(See „ 358 )
445
(c) Marich
(See „ 313 )
446
Tripusha
Triphala—
Kala tewri
447
(a) Haritaki
(See No. 172 )
448
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RASAJALA>NIDHI,
OR
Ocean of Indian Chemistry and Alchemy.
Written in Sanskrit with English translation by Bhudeb
Mookerji m. a. of 4I'A Grey Street, Calcutta.
It is the best book on Indian Chemistry, alchemy, and medicine*
Volumes I and II are already out Vol. Ill is in the press,
OPINIONS.
,(x)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose ; —
Please accept my sincere thanks for copy of Rasa-jala nidhi
which I am looking forward to reading with great interest Of
course, in chemical Science, you should interest modern chemists
in the achievement of Hindu Chemistry in the past
. (*)
Sir C. H. Setalvad, Vice-chancellor, Bombay University ; —
It is indeed very creditable to you to have carried on your
researches in Indian Chemistry and to publish the results in such
comprehensive form. The publication is sure to attract the attention
of all those who are interested in making available to the public
the past achievement in the field of science by India. I will
certainly ask the syndicate of the university to give such encourage-
ment to your work as they may tbbk proper.
( 3 )
Dr. II. K. Sen, M. a. d. sa Professor and Head of the
Department of Applied Chemistry, University College of Science
and Technology, Calcutta
I thank you very much for the very attractive copy of your Rasa-
jala-nidhi, Vol. 1. I enjoyed the reading of the whole volume. m...
you hate been able to make the treatise extremely interesting. The
work indicates erudition and the requisite patience of a scholar.
I am really looking forward to your subsequent volumes, which
I hope will come out in rapid succession and justify the excellent
promise given in the first volume.,.*.,*
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( 4 )
Prof, Arthur B. Lamb^ Director, Chemical Laboratory fo
Harvard College, Cambridge, U. S, A -
I have examined the book with interest and thank you for it.
is)
Prof, L. Mr Dennis, Head of the Department of Chemistryr,
Cornell University, U. S. A
I looked through the book with much interest.
( 6 )
Prof. H. Nagaoka of the Institute of Physical and Chemical
Raiearch, Tokyo
You were so kind as to send me your interesring book **Ocean
of Indian Chemistry and Alchemy,” which I read with much
Interest .1 am at present engaged with electric experiments in
the same domain research I hope to obtain sufiSdently large
quandi^ of gold from mercury.
I have placed your book in the library of the Institute so that it
will be oorurdted by those interested with the subject There is an
old Caiinese treatise on similar subf^ti I believe^ that it originated
from India-
( 7 )' ’ ■
The Chemical News of London dated the i6th Septem!^
her 1927 : —
Alchemical Literature.
Two Important Indian Publications. It is becoming apparent
that there is a revival of scientific interest in Alchemy, Two new
and important contributions have appeared in India, and merit
attention. The first is a bound volume by Dr. Bhudeb Mookerjf
M, A,, entitled Rasa-jala-ntdhi or Ocean of Indian Chemistry an d
Alchemy, and is the first of a series to be edited fay him.
Hindu Chemistry and alchemy is a subject almost uaknowh.
and our indebtedness to the Indians* early contributions to the
development of science was briefly dismissed in the Brief outline
of the History of science (by Dr. Gerald Druce). We art Skenfote
e^cially grateful fa Dr. Bkudeb Mookerjt for hts compilation**^
Details are given for the preparation of mercury for use in medicie
and t&r trammuUng itself or hose metals into gold^ etc. ThC
bilingual text is accompanied by a glossary and definitions andi^
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preceded by a valuable introduction. ...Of both works under review
it may be said that further publications will be awaited with interest
(S)
•‘Englishman,” Calcutta, May 30, 1927.
The work is an ambitions undertaking and is expected to be
completed in 10 volumes. The book claims to be a comprehensive
treatise on Indian Chemistry and alchemy, an art almost lost
several centuries. It contains much interesting matter which
deserves testing under modern laboratory methods. The author
describes several processes, by which he maintains, it is possible
to make mercury swallow, without any appreciable increase in its
weight, much of gold and other materials. Another equally
interesting topic he has dealt with is the transformation of base
metals into gold. In view of the scientific attention that has been
devoted to this subject, there is no reason why the formulae as
given out in this work should not be given a fair trial These instances,
taken at random, are fair samples of the startling and important
nature of the contents. The processes have been described in
detail and the author himself has given his agreement with them
from the result of his own research. The first instalment from the
pen of this author is promising. He deserves the thanks of all
orientalists and Indian chemists for rescuing a science that was in
great danger of being lost altogether. The work is heartily recom-
mended to the attention of those interested in Indian Chemistry.
(9)
“Bharatvarsha” the leading Bengali magazine of Calcutta
The work, when completed, will no doubt prove to be the greats
and the most comprehensive treatise on Hindu Chemistry and
alchemy..... .The author is an eminent and successful physician,
and most probably he has been able to earn a high reputation by
prescribing the medicines described in the book under review.
Physicians in general, we are sure, will be profited by a studjp of the
book*
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